A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES: GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD P/74

 

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A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES 

             GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD

                          PART LXXIV 

"I, Jacob, father of twelve sons, have arrived in Goshen, in Egypt... I would have never believed that I would leave Canaan for Egypt... However, times are still very difficult... For we still suffer the consequences of a famine... The only country that has grain is Egypt....I had sent ten of my sons there two years ago... At that time they came back without my son Simeon... Morever, they told me then that they could only return to Egypt to buy more grain if my youngest son Benjamin would be with them....I was not willing for that to happen... However, we eventually ran out of food.... So I had no choice but to let all of my sons go back to Egypt to buy grain for us... Including my youngest son Benjamin...When they came back from that trip all my sons, including Simeon, returned to me.... Moreover, they came back with carts and special gifts... They then told me an unbelievable story!!... They told me that the son I believed to have been killed by a wild animal many years ago, was, in fact, alive!!.... They told me not only was he alive...He was the official in charge of the grain distribution in Egypt... Initially, I could not believe them.... But when I looked at the carts and the other gifts this official has sent I knew this story was true!... My son... The son I had loved so much... Was alive!.... God had kept His promise!... I now know that I should have remembered the dreams He had given this son as a seventeen-year old...I am now in Egypt....My son is standing before me... We have just embraced each other... Many tears have been shed... His and mine.... God is good!... He has given me back my son I believed to have been lost forever... I can now go to my forefathers in peace!"... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Jacob is now at peace having met Joseph....

 

                 ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES 

                                              GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD

                                                          PART LXIV

Jacob, what has arrived with his family in Goshen, is now at peace as you can read in Genesis 46:30

Israel said to Joseph, "Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive."

Jacob never thought that today would happen, but it has: he has embraced the son he believed to be dead.