GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXVI
"I, Joseph, in my capacity as the official in charge of the grain distribution here in Egypt, just went to see the Pharaoh... However, I did not go to see him to explain to him that we are having difficulties with the grain distribution... No, I went to see him for a totally different matter.... In fact, I went to see him for a matter that is completely unrelated to my tasks as the official in charge of the grain distribution... I went to see him to talk to him about my family from Canaan... For may years I never talked to anyone about my family in Canaan... I did not think anyone would be interested to hear about my family in Canaan... Moreover, I did not know if they all were still alive... So, anyone here in Egypt, including Pharaoh, may well have thought that I did not have any family... Consequently, they never brought up the subject, knowing it may have been a painful subject for me to talk about.... Of course, they did not know how painful the subject was for me... After all, how could I have shared with anyone what my brothers had done to me.... Thankfully, God has now shown me that He has used everything for my good and for the good of my family!... Who could have believed that after having been a slave in someone's household.... And a prisoner.... I, one day, would be the most important person in the country, apart from Pharaoh...Only God could have arranged for that to happen....But I know that only happened after the Lord had taught me many lessons I would not have learned had I stayed at home with my father as his favourite son...I have just now told Pharaoh that my family has arrived here in Egypt.... He would like to personally meet some of them."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Joseph tells the Pharaoh his family has arrived in Goshen....
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXVI
After Joseph has seen his father and his family, he goes to see Pharaoh as you can read in Genesis 47:1
Joseph went and told Pharaoh, "My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen."
Joseph understands the importance of speaking to the Pharaoh about his family so he makes it his priority to speak to him about the arrival of his family in Egypt.
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