Genesis 50:20-21a “You
intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish
what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be
afraid.”
Your
family rejects you when you reveal who you really are. Your boss fires you to settle
a score. The jury finds you guilty because of your skin color.
You
can name the time life threw you into the pit, leaving you for dead. Joseph
could. His brothers threw him into a cistern to die. It wasn’t fair. It was
evil.
Where
is God when we find ourselves in the bottom of the cistern, victims of
injustice? Does God forget about us? When
we hit bottom, we can give up on God; conclude
that God is not in control, that God is an absentee landlord.
Or
we start to pray for God to do what only God can do when evil assails us.
God didn’t throw Joseph into the well. Why didn’t God stop the evil? The answer can take a lifetime to discover.
God
is not the author of evil. But God does turn human evil into good outcomes.
There
is a Rescue Plan. And it is good.
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