Our Choices Matter | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | May 21, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.0 | Our Reading titled, Our Choices Matter, was written by Allison Keita. |
| 0:16.0 | A swimming instructor in New Jersey saw a car sinking into Newark Bay and heard the driver |
| 0:22.2 | inside screaming, I can't swim, as his SUV quickly sank into the murky waters. |
| 0:29.6 | As a crowd watched from shore, Anthony ran to the rocks along the edge, removed his prosthetic |
| 0:35.3 | leg, and jumped in to rescue the 68-year-old man and help him |
| 0:39.7 | safely to shore. Thanks to Anthony's decisive action, another man was saved. Our choices matter. |
| 0:48.5 | Consider the patriarch, Jacob, the father of many sons, who openly favored his 17-year-old son Joseph. |
| 0:56.1 | He foolishly made Joseph an ornate robe. |
| 0:59.8 | The result? |
| 1:01.3 | Joseph's brothers hated him, and when the opportunity arose, they sold him into slavery. |
| 1:08.1 | Yet because Joseph ended up in Egypt, God used him to preserve Jacob's family and many |
| 1:14.0 | others during a seven-year famine, despite Joseph's brother's intention to harm him. The choice that |
| 1:21.8 | set it all in motion was Joseph's decision to be honorable and run from Potipher's wife. |
| 1:28.3 | The result was prison and an eventual meeting with Pharaoh. |
| 1:33.3 | Anthony may have had the advantage of training, |
| 1:36.3 | but he still had to make a choice. |
| 1:39.3 | When we love God and seek to serve him, |
| 1:42.3 | he helps us make life-affirming and God-honoring choices. |
| 1:47.1 | If we haven't already, we can begin by trusting Jesus. |
| 1:57.0 | Today's Our Daily Read Devotional Scripture reading is from Genesis chapter 39 verses 1 through 12. |
| 2:03.6 | Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potifer, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. |
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