When Joseph revealed his identity to the brothers, who had sold him into slavery 22 years prior, he said… “God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me here, but God… fear not, you intended evil against me: but God intended it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive” – (Genesis 45:7, 50:16).
God turned the hatred of ten brothers into such good that the entire region was saved from certain death. And this is the wonder of Christ’s Cross but on a global scale… “He was despised and rejected of men,” but God allowed it, that He might give His life to save the world.
It is this power of God toward us that we are told to count on during our own sufferings… “For I conclude that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us… for WE KNOW that all things work together for good to those that love God, to those who are the called, according to His purpose.” – (Romans 8:18,28)
Like Joseph, there is a coming day when Jesus will appear in glory to reveal Himself to His nation and to the world… “And every eye shall see Him, and they also who pierced Him: and all families of the earth shall wail because of Him” – (Revelation 1:7). He will come to bring a great deliverance to this world from the tyranny of lies and death.
But for today, may the Lord use you to share His message of life and hope, for WE KNOW how the story ends in Jesus.
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