Genesis 43:1–15
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We often want God’s providence to be like a gentle stream that carries us pleasantly to our destination. It is severe, it is abrasive, and it is absolutely necessary. He is in the business of remaking men, and that is often a painful process. He puts His people into impossible situations, under immense pressure, so that He might grind away the sin, the fear, and the foolishness, and reveal the gold of genuine faith and repentance underneath. In our passage today, the family of the covenant is caught in a divine vise. The strange, harsh ruler in Egypt is not just a capricious bureaucrat; he is a tool of God. The entire situation is designed by God to bring this dysfunctional, sinful family to the end of itself. Specifically, it is designed to finish the work of transformation in one man in particular: Judah.