What was it about Joseph that captured God’s attention? When he was given the dreams as a young man it was a confusing picture into the future. It was a picture that Joseph didn’t understand but it did raise Jacob’s suspicions. Surely the older prophet knew that God was up to something in the life of his second youngest son. But God’s plans for Joseph were beyond his father’s wildest dreams. It was so amazing that God used the jealousy, anger, and selfishness of Joseph’s brothers to make a way for the physical salvation of Abraham’s covenant line. As we Christians know today God used the same human sins in the lives of Jesus’ “brothers”, those of the physical lineage from Joseph’s brothers, to make a way for the spiritual salvation of every person of faith who ever lived. Just as God used the greed of the ancient Judah to bring Joseph to pagan Egypt so he used the greed of a first century Judah, who’s Greek name was Judas, to bring Jesus to pagan Rome. There is no way such similarities could be in place except that God was in them.
Stuart
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Paul of Tarsus
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