Thursday, August 25, 2016

big brothers are the worst

The kids and I are studying the story of Joseph.

If ever there was a life that could have turned to resentment, depression, and despair, this is it.

Short story: Joseph's brothers hated him, sold him, told his dad that he had died. He ended up in Potiphar's house where the guy's wife lied about him which ended up getting him thrown in jail. While there, he interpreted some dreams and then those guys forgot about him (well, one of them died so that's understandable). From favorite son to forgotten in jail.

If ever there was a life that shows God's amazing work through trials and devastation, this is it.

After all that garbage in his life, he ended up second-in-command only under Pharoah, and because of that position, he was able to save the lives of the guys who sold him to begin with. 

Redemption. 

So I'm thinking that if God can take the messed up rigamaroll that was Joseph's life and turn it into something amazing and incredible, then He can do the same for each of us who might have lived through a bunch of junk ourselves. 


And the craziness of it all is that the people who did all this horrible garbage to him, he ended up not only forgiving them, but helping them too! Man, that took gutsy forgiveness. 


The Bible's full of lives that parallel ours here on earth. 
Good reading, I tell ya. 
That God, He knows what He's doing a whole lot more that I know what I'm doing.


KC

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