Daily Devotional Tuesday Thoughts | July 7, 2026

It’s Tuesday, and time for your daily devotional. Raise your hand if you look forward to persecution. Crickets. That’s because no one does, and that’s normal. It’s abnormal to like persecution, but you’re not asked to enjoy it. You’re to endure hardness as a good soldier. In today’s daily devotional, as a soldier, you’re aware that a soldier’s life involves risks.

Rejected By His Brothers

Joseph was a type of Christ in the Old Testament. He was the adored son of Jacob and Rebecca. Jacob treated him better than His other sons, giving him a coat of many colors. This signified Joseph was his choice for heir, although he wasn’t the oldest. Because of this preferential treatment, his brothers hated him. Yet Joseph was innocent. He was obedient to his father and faithful to God.

The God of His fathers gave Joseph dreams about his future and destiny for greatness. However, he was rejected by his brothers. They hated him and thrust him out of the family. In your daily devotional, sometimes people outside the church appreciate your anointing, whereas God’s people don’t. 

Hidden in Plain Sight

Jesus was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. His parents were Jewish, and He grew up in a Jewish community. He was reared in obscurity, around his family and kinsmen. They traveled each year to celebrate Jewish festivals. He was the Messiah, hidden in plain sight. Like the obscure Joseph, He was loved by His father, but hated by his brethren. Scripture says He came unto His own and His own received Him not.

When He revealed His identity, the people of His hometown, who worshipped in the synagogue, tried to throw Him off a cliff. Religious leaders persecuted Him throughout His ministry. He had more haters from His own community than from Gentile communities where He ministered. In this daily devotional, you may be persecuted by people who should accept you, but when you desire Jesus more than man’s approval, you can endure the rejection.

Sons of Abraham

Both Jesus and Joseph were sons of Abraham; they were Jews by birthright. They lived faithfully before God, and they both had life-changing assignments. Joseph nourished his family in famine. God raised him to be a leader who’d deliver his people from starvation and death. God would preserve His people through Joseph, keeping His covenant made with Abraham.

Jesus brought salvation to His people. He would usher in the dispensation of grace, replacing God’s word written on papyrus and parchment with God’s word written on the hearts of believers. God’s people would not be consumed by their enemies, such as Rome and other nations to which they were scattered. In your daily devotional, God’s people, Jews and Gentiles, would become Christ’s body of believers who’d go into the world and preach the gospel, building the Kingdom of God. 

You’re a Soldier Who’s Built to Endure

In Tuesday’s daily devotional, each suffered persecution; both finished their mission, proving it doesn’t defeat the purpose to which you’re called. God was with them, empowering them by His Spirit. When Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt to buy food, they didn’t recognize him. He was regal, powerful, and authoritative. He was once nothing in their eyes, but he had become highly esteemed.

The Jews failed to recognize Jesus, not because He had a regal bearing, but because He looked like one of them. In today’s daily devotional, you’ll experience persecution, but it will only prove God has called you to be a soldier, aware of the risks, but built to endure.