Romans 8:17 – “And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ”.
For those of you who are married (or want to be one day), on your wedding day, you most likely received lots of checks made out to Mr. and Mrs. [your names]. What did you do with those checks? If you deposited them, it was probably into a jointchecking account, or at least I hope so! And in order to deposit them, both of you had to sign your name on the back of the check.
Read MoreGenesis 45:27 - Amplified Bible - "But when they told him [Jacob] all the words of Joseph which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived [and warmth and life returned]."
Are you an optimist of a pessimist? Consider this. When Jacob's sons came to him and said their brother Joseph, his favored son, was dead, he believed their lying report. Then when the same sons came to him many years later and said that Joseph is alive, and he's the governor of Egypt, he couldn't believe their true report. It was easier for him to believe the negative news, and harder for him to believe the positive news...it was just "too good to be true". That's pessimism - the tendency to dismiss the light and embrace the dark.
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