Genesis 44:1–17
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a therapeutic age, an age that has mistaken comfort for godliness and has concluded that the chief end of God is to make us feel good about ourselves. But the God of Scripture is not a sentimental grandfather, and His purposes are far grander than our fleeting emotional states. God is in the business of redemption, and redemption is a bloody, rugged, and often painful affair. It requires that the infection of sin be lanced, that the pride of man be broken, and that the conscience, long seared and silenced, be reawakened to the thunder of God's law. In our story, Joseph is continuing a very severe mercy upon his brothers. He is not toying with them out of some petty desire for revenge. Joseph is an instrument in the hands of a sovereign God, and God is finishing the work He started.