TUESDAY - 27TH JANUARY, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
THE CUP YOU MUST DRINK - Cups And Graces Series 001
"And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us."
Joseph didn't want to go to Egypt but God sent him. How did I know that? Read our verse for the day again. The Bible says, "...in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear..."
Do you know who besought - begged, yet they would not hear? It was Joseph. At this point in time, repercussions have caught up with Joseph's brothers or let us say, so they felt. Why did I choose to go with the latter? That's because Joseph was only being dramatic with what he was doing to them. He only needed to do that to test them and not because he really wanted to hurt them. He already discerned them as his brothers and though they sold him into slavery, he had no resentment against them.
When they came to Egypt to buy grain for the family because the famine was also in Canaan, they came face to face with Joseph who accused them of being spies. They spoke true and defended themselves, even to give an account of their family life, telling their former and current number after one (in Joseph) was no more. It was at this time he remembered his dreams that he had at age seventeen which his brothers refuted as they now bow to him. So, he began the drama, both to test them if they had repented and to source vital information from them.
Refusing to clear them of being spies, they were jailed for three days. On the third day, Joseph felt for them and released them on the conditions that Simeon would be kept in ward while Benjamin is brought to Egypt to prove and redeem their words as they have said of their last born.
It was at this instance they all remembered their wickedness to Joseph, lifted up their gazes and condemned themselves by saying to one another, "...we are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us."
In essence, Joseph begged for his life that day. He didn't want to be sold into slavery. Nothing in him wanted to sail. He thought he would be lost and that it could be the end of his life. The words "anguish of soul" reveal how much Joseph cried, resisted and fought his being sold into slavery as he was being drawn out of the well that day. You could see the "anguish of his soul" on his face. He was afraid and deadened to happiness. All he wanted was to go home. He would have preferred to be warned not to make them look inferior again than being sold into slavery. If they had asked for his clothe of many colours to be jettisoned, he would have traded it for his life. However, he had to go into the future of Israel. He had to be sold.
As a matter of fact, God so much supervised his going that when Reuben, their eldest brother sought to deliver him from the hands of the other brothers in order to deliver him back to their father, God frustrated that process. Reuben began by saying this.
Genesis 37:22, KJV
"And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again."
Before he came back to the well however, the lad had gone. Reuben lamented this way.
Genesis 37:30, KJV
"And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?"
You see, he was asking where he would go being the first born who has the utmost responsibility of accounting for all of them and presenting Joseph back to the father - Jacob. When it is God's will for you to go, you can't be retained here. You may not understand all the workings. Joseph didn't as we saw he didn't want to go genuinely. He thought all that was to life is his father's house and the little endearments of gifts he enjoyed. He never knew there was a planned life beyond Canaan for him. That life is in Egypt - a place he would never have chosen to go voluntarily. Meanwhile, God orchestrated it by providence and made situations so much work for him that he was not killed nor his blood concealed when it could have been done (Gen. 37:22, 26-27). Rather, he travelled.
We know Joseph had to drink this cup of soulish anguish and momentary trouble which lasted for thirteen years of his life as he himself reveals the mind of God on why he came ahead of them to Egypt.
"Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life" (Genesis 45:5, 7-8).
He told them, "You didn't send me here but God did in order to preserve many people alive."
Brethren, you will drink your cup. As long as it is your cup, it'll be bearable for you to drink and that's because there's an assigned grace and endurance that goes with each person's specific designed cup. That's why you must not run another man's race. That's why you must face your journey and ensure you only play out your script. If you don't but switch cups with a friend, you'll end up being deficient because you won't have the graces and enablement for the cup that was not initially made for you. As a matter of fact, go and make it a prayer that you will drink your cup and your cup only.
PRAYER/CONFESSION: Lord, I'm submitted to Your will and Your will only in order to fulfill my destiny, assignment/ministry and drink my own cup.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Exodus 4:1-5:21; Matthew 18:1-20; Psalm 22:19-31; Proverbs 5:15-21
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