Donkeys...Were Lost

1 Samuel 9:2-3 – Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else. Now the donkeys belonging to Saul’s father Kish were lost, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go and look for the donkeys.”

Genesis 39:6-7 – So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

Isaiah 1:3 – The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Psalm 78:72 – And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.

Application:

• ·         Joseph came to hold the welfare of his “world” in his hands—but always by the blessing and overruling of God, never by his own wits, as his father Jacob had so long attempted.
• ·         Refusal to know and understand God later resulted in Judah’s exile from her land.
• ·         Israel under the care of the Lord’s royal shepherd from the house of David was for the prophets the hope of God’s people.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV