What Was Meant For Your Harm God Will Use To Your Advantage

good vs. evil

Joseph

Son of Jacob
Graduate with honors from the Academy of Difficult Knocks
Manager of Global Effort to Salvage Humanity Succeeded

How? How did he flourish in the midst of tragedy? We don't have to speculate. Some xx years later on the roles were reversed, Joseph as the stiff one and his brothers the weak ones. They came to him in dread. They feared he would settle the score and throw them into a pit of his own making. But Joseph didn't. And in his explanation we find his inspiration.

Every bit for you, yous meant evil against me, merely God meant it for practiced in social club to bring well-nigh this nowadays result, to preserve many people alive. — Genesis 50:20 NASB

Y'all intended to harm me, but God intended information technology for skillful to accomplish what is at present existence done, the saving of many lives. — Genesis 50:20 NIV

But every bit for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for skillful, in social club to bring it nigh as it is this day, to save many people alive. — Genesis fifty:20 NKJV

In God'south hands intended evil becomes eventual proficient.

Joseph tied himself to the pillar of this promise and held on for love life. Nil in his story glosses over the presence of evil. Quite the opposite. Bloodstains, tearstains are everywhere. Joseph's eye was rubbed raw against the rocks of disloyalty and miscarried justice. Yet time and time once more God redeemed the pain. The torn robe became a royal one. The pit became a palace. The broken family grew sometime together. The very acts intended to destroy God's servant turned out to strengthen him.

"You meant evil against me,"

Joseph told his brothers, using a Hebrew verb that traces its significant to "weave" or "plait."

"You wove evil," he was saying, "just God rewove it together for skillful."

God, the Main Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Zero escapes His reach. Every king, despot, weather pattern, and molecule are at His command. He passes the shuttle dorsum and forth beyond the generations, and equally He does, a design emerges. Satan weaves; God reweaves.

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Excerpted with permission from You lot'll Get Through This by Max Lucado, copyright Thomas Nelson.

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Your Turn

1 of the most potentially frightening aspects of being a Christian is knowing that when yous put your trust in Jesus, all of Hell takes arms against you intending evil upon your life. And, yet what trumps that fear and evil is knowing that, no matter what comes, God is the Master Weaver. He takes was was intended for evil and reweaves it for skilful. How accept you lot seen that in your own life? Come share with us on our web log! ~ Devotionals Daily