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THE SINNING SONS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Genesis 37
Psalm 20
Walk with the Lord daily.
THE SINNING SONS
Jacob’s sons (children of the covenant promise and founders of the Jewish nation) were tainted with immorality, lust, violence and crime. They had slaughtered an alien people in Shechem. They were prepared to kill their own brother. Yet, on them rested God’s plan of raising a nation and fulfilling His covenant promise. Through them “…shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Gen 12:3).
How can this be? Can such gross evil become a source of blessing to the people of the world? Obviously, some great and radical transformation of the brothers was necessary before God could use them. By a series of events in the domestic happenings of Jacob’s family, God was setting the stage for the brothers to learn their lesson and undergo the necessary conversion before they could become inheritors of God’s promised blessing and patriarchs of the tribes.
Let us recapitulate the events in order: Jacob’s partiality and favouritism, the brothers’ resentment, Joseph’s dreams adding fuel to fire, the mission to Dothan, the vile plot to kill, to starve to death, to sell into slavery. Finally, we find Joseph a servant in Egypt mourned by a grieving father at home in Canaan. In future chapters, we shall see the story unfolding with fascination and excitement, until the brothers are brought to full repentance and reconciliation, through their brother, God’s deliverer. God has a way of dealing with sinning sons, to His own great glory and honour!
Dear reader, are you going through some trial, some tribulation, which seems so unjust in your eyes that you wonder where God is? Rest assured, God is still on the throne and He takes care of His own! Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus. God’s Word says, “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28). Take God at His Word. Praise God for His omniscience and His omnipotence!
THOUGHT: (Read Proverbs 14:34.)
PRAYER: I thank Thee, Father, that I am on Thy side. Help me to walk closely with Thee daily.