Today's Passage: Genesis 36-37
What's the saying...'hindsight is 20/20"? Often times in my life I do the same thing. Things happen that aren't so good and I look back and think...man, I wish I would've made a different choice because I know things would've been better for me now (but in the long run, it's exactly where I needed to be)! Joseph finds himself in a very similar situation. If only he hadn't gone to look for his brothers. If he had told his father he was busy doing something else, then he wouldn't have been sold into slavery!
Often times I overlook the fact that God is at work even in our troubles. I mentioned this a few weeks ago during Sunday Morning Bible Study. It's easy for us now to read the story of Abraham and Sarah and not understand why Sarah wanted Abraham to have a child with someone else. We have the luxury of knowing the end of the story, but she didn't. When we are right in the midst of hard times, we easily lose sight of God. We can easily feel abandoned, or feel like we have done something to mess this whole thing up. The good news is that we have a God who never leaves us.
Joseph was put through some extraordinarily difficult things in his life. Never once was he abandoned by God. Joseph didn't de-rail God's plan for him to one day become the governer of Egypt by going through rough patches. The encouragement that I draw from this is that even now, as Patti and I are facing some unexpected difficulties, God's right here! Things may not always be sunshine and roses, but God is at work in us. In these times, seek hard for Him!
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