I'm I'm Most of us would agree that our health is important. If we fail to take care of ourselves,

our lifespan can decrease, or our ability to enjoy it is diminished. As important as physical health is,

today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg points out

why spiritual health is an even greater concern.

I invite you to turn with me to the book of Genesis

and to chapter 45, 46, and as you turn to that,

let us just turn to the Lord and seek his help in prayer.

Well, God, our Father, we do pray that you will now come and speak to us through your word,

that beyond the printed page and the words of a mere man, that you

will speak into our lives today in a way that is unmistakably clear, so that unbelieving

people may come to trust in you, that those who believe may be established in you, and

that those who wander and waver may be called into the very

pathway of your plan and purpose for their lives, even as you called your servant, Jacob,

in whose footsteps we follow, and from whose story we seek to learn. And we pray in Jesus' name,

amen. The end of chapter 45 gives to us this amazing picture of the brothers heading back now to their father in Canaan, with

the carts and the clothes and the provisions and the donkeys and the prospect of having

to greet their father and speak to him.

They had been sent with a word of warning from their brother Joseph in verse 24 of chapter 45, don't he said, quarrel on the

journey. He didn't want them to spend their time aggravating one another, and so they must

have spent their time in some form of conversation. Doubtless, there would have been somebody

who said, you know, the thing that it struck me with

such terror was when someone opened that bag of yours, Benjamin, and they pulled out the cup.

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