Saturday, February 7, 2015

God, Joseph


Genesis / Bereshit {44:30} "If I am now to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us is not-as his life is bound lad to him- {44:31} he will die if he sees that the boy had not been; and thy servants will bring the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow brought down to the grave. {44:32} For thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, because he said: If I'm not after you bring him, I will bear the blame to my father for ever. {44:33} Let your servant booloo now then in the place of the boy servant to my lord remains, and let the lad go up with his brethren. {44:34} For how can I return to my father and the lad is not with me? May I see the evil that shall come on my father! ".
It has many of Judah required to finally confess and take responsibility for what he did, accept. Yes, he did not specifically confess his or her sins and those of his brothers, but that he took to rescue the blame on himself for his brother Benjamin - he is not in Joseph's case did not - prove to us that Judah and his brothers indeed was remorseful.
Joseph and his nine brothers had really much to endure to reach this point of confession and repentance. They called for twenty years with a sense of guilt lived. They fully realize that they let their father cheated by him to believe that Joseph was dead - by a wild animal torn. Then there was the painful first meeting booloo with Joseph, where he knew them, but they do not for him. Joseph them through a difficult booloo time dire away. As we are aware, booloo he had them tested by a threat to have them all arrested for spying. At last he only Simeon in prison had left, and he insisted that his brothers Benjamin returns as proof that they were not spies. It was for them a severe testing. When they way back, on top of the money they had paid for the grain to Joseph, in discovering their bags, I can only imagine myself booloo how these men must have felt. They stress level must have been incredibly high!
Here, with a brother in prison, the money they pay in their pockets, they look like thieves, and the mere thought into this powerful, hostile Egyptian ruler with their brother booloo Benjamin to return, had undoubtedly extremely stressful for they have been. Moreover, the fact that their father, Jacob refused to Benjamin with them to go back to Egypt to leave. When Jacob finally granted permission to Benjamin to pass, he did by loading more guilt on his remaining sons. It was not there for them ended! On returning to Egypt, booloo Joseph continued to place pressure on his brothers. I am convinced that indescribable fear gripped their hearts when the viceroy's goblet, with their return journey, in Benjamin's sack was discovered! Can you imagine all this? Try to put yourself in this story - just think how you would feel!
It is undeniably clear that Joseph was deliberately booloo trying to let his brothers through all this stress. It was, after all, he who recognized them, and if he wanted to, he could himself during their first meeting had already introduced them. The fact is that this entire episode, from beginning booloo to end, the disposal of God. He was bringing to them recognizing their sins and they move from debt to confession to repent.
Many of us feel guilty about our sins, but insists that guilt us any purpose to confess it and repent, or "bury" we simply like Joseph's brothers and pretends it does not exist? We will also but with our lives as if nothing had happened?
I trust that this whole story as a picture, a picture of Jesus and His brothers - the Jewish people - will consider. But what I want we have to look today, booloo the simple booloo meaning in this story which the lesson we can learn from it.
God, Joseph's brothers to the limit so they finally confess their guilt and repented. For twenty years they owe those inside them behave and I'm convinced booloo that it gives them a lot of anguish, suffering and even illness meant - to speak not only of the resulting tense relations among themselves and with their father. How could it ever be honest in the eye after what they did?
Think for a moment about your life. Have you over the past years anxiety, grief and suffering endured? Do you feel as if you, in spite of the adversity, no prosperity would ever experienced? Is there any sense of guilt that you have in your subconscious laid, possibly to your anxiety and even illness aanleidin

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