GOD’S MIRACULOUS
DELIVERANCE INTO EGYPT
Thursday, September 22,
2016
Joseph said to his
guilt-ridden fearful conniving brothers “As for you, you meant evil against me,
but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept
alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little
ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. So Joseph remained
in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.” ESV Genesis 50:20-22
We much prefer to think of deliverance being
according to our standards – sans laborious conditions or discomfort. But then
God’s ways are not very often man’s ways. (Isa.55:8-9) God seldom provides an
ark in outright fashion. God often provides the work plans to build an ark.
Being a lazy-as-I-dare fellow, I much prefer my way rather than His Way. My
preference being with AC and lots of Valencia’s combo pizza with ice cold
cherry coke on tap.
As a matter of fact, my loafing on couch
being entertained by Andrew Lloyd Weber’s version, Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, of Joseph’s story is much easier than thoughtfully
reading 20 chapters in the Bible.
Consider the record of God’s route of moving
Joseph to Egypt as pathfinder for and later prime minister to His chosen
people. (Duet.7:6; 14:2) Joseph’s journey was anything but conveyance by
chariot pulled by prancing steeds. And once there, well, you know the rest of
the story.
If not: Genesis 30:22; 37: 1-36; 39:1 thru
50:26.
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