GENESIS 44-45
27“Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. 28One of them went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since. 29If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.’
30“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life, 31sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow. 32Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’
33“Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. 34How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”(44:27-33)JOURNAL
Judah is willing to take the place of Benjamin. Joseph had created a test for his brothers...they passed the test when Judah was willing and actually demanded to take Benjamin's place. At this point Joseph knew that the heart and motives of his brothers had changed.
Jesus being overwhelmed by grief withdraws to mourn, yet the crowds follow. He still though has compassion on them and that same day he feeds them all from the few baskets of fish and then walks on water...what a day and to think that it started after hearing of the beheading of John the baptist. It started in grief and ended in triumph.
Judah is willing to take the place of Benjamin. Joseph had created a test for his brothers...they passed the test when Judah was willing and actually demanded to take Benjamin's place. At this point Joseph knew that the heart and motives of his brothers had changed.
Jesus being overwhelmed by grief withdraws to mourn, yet the crowds follow. He still though has compassion on them and that same day he feeds them all from the few baskets of fish and then walks on water...what a day and to think that it started after hearing of the beheading of John the baptist. It started in grief and ended in triumph.
Jesus being overwhelmed by grief withdraws to mourn, yet the crowds follow. He still though has compassion on them and that same day he feeds them all from the few baskets of fish and then walks on water...what a day and to think that it started after hearing of the beheading of John the baptist. It started in grief and ended in triumph.
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