1.24.2012 – Even More Family Values!

Day 24!  Boy, this is getting good!  Genesis 37 and Matt 9:18-38.

Just when you thought the story of Jacob’s family couldn’t get any worse – here we go.  It all starts with Jacobs favoring of Joseph.  Actually, God has some big plans for Joseph – but that is for later.  Right now, Joseph is a young guy and he is having these dreams where his brothers bow down to him (remember, its a dream so its actually sheaves of grain bowing down to another sheave – its a dream – go with it!).  They get mad and then plot to kill him.  They end up selling him into slavery which actually places him in just the right place for Gods purposes.

Does this mean we should do horrible things to our brothers because God might do something great because of it.  NO!  Bad move!  God uses what they did and makes good come from it.  What they did was awful and it caused pain for the entire family.  Its hard to see that God will do something unbelievable despite what these brothers do against their brother.  Isn’t God amazing as He works and saves us?