This is a picture of Mozart-Man walking in our favorite park back in Ohio, about this time last year. I love this picture.
Everyone's heard of the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors. I've been re-reading the book of Genesis lately, and came across Joseph meeting his brothers in Egypt after many years. His brothers had sold him into slavery, left him for dead, and hated him, but after all that, Joseph is able to accept them and care for them. How is this possible? Here is Joseph's answer:
"...Now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me here before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years...and God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God."
Even though nasty things happen to people, God will use them for His own purposes and bring good out of evil. This is something I need to keep reminding myself. Everything in life will work out for the glory of Him who reigns in spite of man's attempts to thwart God's purposes.
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Finding stuff like that is always profound. Is there not a wealth of things to cling to in God's word? I am reading about Jacob right now fleeing from Laban and am almost at the story you mention. I will read it again soon! Good stuff.
Joseph is one of my very favorite people in the world, and that verse is one of my life verses. One thing that I have learned the hard way the last few years is that life is not fair, but God is good.
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