From Desperation to Inspiration!
When we search the Word of God using these two little words…” but God”, impossible situations change. These are two of the most powerful words that give us insight into how God changes desperate situations into hope and inspires what may seem impossible to man, becomes possible with God.
In Genesis chapter 37:12 we see that Joseph’s brothers came up with a plan to murder Joseph. But God used his brother Reuben devised another plan. It was a plan meant to bring Joseph home. However, there was an intervention. Before Reuben could return and save Joseph, a band of Ishmaelites came and Joseph’s brothers sold him, tore off his clothes, dipped them in goats’ blood and took it back to their father. The Ishmaelites took Joseph to Egypt and sold him.
God intervened wherever Joseph was taken, in slavery, in the palace, in the courts, everywhere he landed, he became a leader. Even though he was demoted, imprisoned, falsely accused, he kept his faith in “But God.”
If not for Joseph all of Israel would have starved to death. When Joseph’s brothers came to ask for help in Egypt, they ended up speaking to Joseph. They had no idea that their future was held in the hands of the brother they attempted to murder.
If you read further into the story, in Genesis 42, you see that Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt. He sent his sons, and they were met by Joseph. In Genesis 45:7 Joseph spoke these words, “But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”
The story continues in Genesis 50:15. Fear gripped the hearts of his brothers because their father had passed away. They assumed that Joseph was waiting for their father to die to exact revenge on them.
Genesis 50:15,20 (King James Version)
15) “And when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.”
20) “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; But God meant I unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”
Every time I read this scripture it touches my heart. Joseph is so much like Christ. Joseph redeemed his brothers because God intervened. Christ redeemed us through the power of God that raised him from the dead.
Our hearts of stone can and will be changed at the power of the name of Jesus. Joseph had authority to do anything he wanted to do to retaliate on his brothers, But God!
Because of redemptions our hearts are changed for good, and God’s love is imparted into our lives. Hardships come to all of us, many are beyond our ability to understand. How could Joseph
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