The One Year Bible - Day 22

Genesis 45 and Joseph finally reveals his identity to his brothers with this classic, "don't be upset and don't be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place..", I was wondering whether his brothers were thinking, "never mind us, why on earth did you jail us, trick us, lie to us and make us travel hundreds of miles when you could have told us right away who you were!".

Then one of my favourite stories about feeding the 5000 in Matthew 14 (not just because I like food). I really like it because it is a clear picture that, like the talents, when we take them to Jesus, he can multiply them a thousand-fold. We are not specifically talking about numbers so much as quality and efficiency. Humanly speaking, we might think that organising 5 prayer meetings a week would naturally be better than 1, whereas in God's kingdom where things work in a different way, it might be that 1 prayer meeting with the right people in the right moods focussed on certain things allows much greater effect with less work - I believe the phrase is "work smarter, not harder"!