PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Genesis 45-46
What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?
“It was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.” (Genesis 45:5)
Joseph is now in a position to see God’s hand at work.
When he was in the cistern, or in prison, he would not likely have seen it.
They say that hindsight is 20/20 vision, but can we learn foresight as well?
To look ahead, to anticipate in our troubles that God is also at work.
What if God is setting you up to rescue someone else?
What if your current crisis is God’s way of bringing someone else relief?
People you do not even know are somehow connected and affected by you!
Is sending you ahead, like God did Joseph and Jesus, to bless others?
I cling to this hope that God is at work in all things, for good reasons.
I imagine that one day we will stand with all the people blessed through us.
Like Joseph we will discover that there WAS a plan, and it was good.
And I suspect that we will see it was worth it, and be glad that God used us!
Life in this world is not easy; but when it all comes together, it will be worth it!
Can I embrace this mission now, before I see it clearly… who can I bless today?
PRAYER
Lord, I cannot see right now all the people you are impacting through me. Help me to trust you when life gets hard, that somehow, somewhere you are helping others through my life.
“I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again.” I am sure Jacob was nervous about going down to Egypt -but God came through to him and reassured him that it is all part of God’s plan. Goshen would be the incubator for raising up a nation. In our daily living some twists and turns do not seem right – but God can use whatever happens to ‘grow us’ to help us fully trust Him. Thank you HS for your guiding ways!
In all things, I need to see the hand of God leading me and guiding me as an instrument of His peace. The Lord continues to lead and guide His own His wonder to perform, to love Him and serve Him and serve others. One anothering is the way to show by my words and deeds, that I belong to Him. I am in His hands as He continues to pilot me the way to go – this is the way. Walk in it. All for Jesus.
1 All for Jesus! All for Jesus!
All my being’s ransomed pow’rs,
all my thoughts and words and doings,
all my days and all my hours.
2 Let my hands perform his bidding,
let my feet run in his ways;
let my eyes see Jesus only,
let my lips speak forth his praise.