The Directing Wonder

Let us muse today from Genesis 45:3-5,8,14-15 and The Directing Wonder. I lay before us The Wonderful Pronouncement. When Joseph reveals himself to his brothers he tells them ‘you didn’t send me down to Egypt, but God did.’ In Genesis 50:20 he said ‘you meant it for evil but God meant it for good.’ In this wonderful pronouncement his forgiveness is letting them off the hook. It is one thing to forgive but it is another to forget and a great step to let them off the hook. Years ago a man in the church where I pastored split out church in a million pieces. At the time the wound was hard. It let me to an Evangelistic ministry of preaching 200 plus nights a year. I forgave him, forgot it, and feel like sometimes I should send him a thankyou note.