Tuesday, 25 August 2009 01:00 | and posted in Brotherly Betrayal
Then Joseph said to his brothers..., “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. Genesis 44:34
When we suffer it is easy to live out of the physical truth of the evil and injustice of our persecution. Joseph could have chosen to live his life in a place of darkness and pain where he was constantly the one “sold into Egypt.” Instead, he sees a spiritual truth too. He sees the-always-with-him God bringing light out of his darkness and saving lives through him.