BLINDED BY DISCOURAGEMENT (3 OF 5)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Genesis 41:50-52
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Title: Blinded By Discouragement (3 of 5)
Series: Blind Spots
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Genesis 41:50-52
About 75 years ago, there was a woman named Florence Chadwick who was the 1st woman swim the English Channel BOTH WAYS. Then, in 1952, she decided to swim from Catalina Island, to the shore of California, a distance of about 22 miles. The day she chose to swim turned foggy and chilly as she began her swim and she could hardly see the boats accompanying her. Still, she swam steadily for 15 hours...and then begged to be taken out of water. Her mother was in a boat alongside her and told her that she was close and that she could make it.
Physically and emotionally exhausted, Florence just stopped swimming and was pulled out. It wasn't until she was aboard the boat that she discovered the shore was less than half mile away. At a news conference the next day, she said, "All I could see was the fog.... I think if I could have seen shore, I would have made it." (Randy Alcorn 50 Days of Heaven p.3)
SHE COULD HAVE MADE IT!!! It was only another 1/2 a mile.
But Florence Chadwick didn't give up because she was NOT strong enough to finish. She gave up because she became discouraged. She couldn't see the shore so she lost her faith. Her discouragement... blinded her.
In today's text, we read about a man named Joseph. Joseph had TWO boys and the names he gave them would seem to indicate that he'd gotten discouraged at one point in his life.
One of the boys he named: Manasseh. "Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for God has made me forget all my HARDSHIP and all my father's house". And the other "he called Ephraim, 'For God has made me fruitful in the land of my AFFLICTION.'"
His HARDSHIP... and his AFFLICTION? What's that all about? What had happened to Joseph that would make him name his kids in that way? Well, it goes back to his youth. He had ten older half-brothers who basically hated him, and they hated him because th ...
Series: Blind Spots
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Genesis 41:50-52
About 75 years ago, there was a woman named Florence Chadwick who was the 1st woman swim the English Channel BOTH WAYS. Then, in 1952, she decided to swim from Catalina Island, to the shore of California, a distance of about 22 miles. The day she chose to swim turned foggy and chilly as she began her swim and she could hardly see the boats accompanying her. Still, she swam steadily for 15 hours...and then begged to be taken out of water. Her mother was in a boat alongside her and told her that she was close and that she could make it.
Physically and emotionally exhausted, Florence just stopped swimming and was pulled out. It wasn't until she was aboard the boat that she discovered the shore was less than half mile away. At a news conference the next day, she said, "All I could see was the fog.... I think if I could have seen shore, I would have made it." (Randy Alcorn 50 Days of Heaven p.3)
SHE COULD HAVE MADE IT!!! It was only another 1/2 a mile.
But Florence Chadwick didn't give up because she was NOT strong enough to finish. She gave up because she became discouraged. She couldn't see the shore so she lost her faith. Her discouragement... blinded her.
In today's text, we read about a man named Joseph. Joseph had TWO boys and the names he gave them would seem to indicate that he'd gotten discouraged at one point in his life.
One of the boys he named: Manasseh. "Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for God has made me forget all my HARDSHIP and all my father's house". And the other "he called Ephraim, 'For God has made me fruitful in the land of my AFFLICTION.'"
His HARDSHIP... and his AFFLICTION? What's that all about? What had happened to Joseph that would make him name his kids in that way? Well, it goes back to his youth. He had ten older half-brothers who basically hated him, and they hated him because th ...
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