God’s Amazing Love For whom the LORD loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights. Proverbs 3:12 Recommended Reading Hebrews 12:1-13 Most Bible readers know that the story of Joseph and the family of Jacob moving to Egypt takes up the last major section of Genesis: chapters 37-50. We meet Joseph as a teenager in Genesis 37 and see him buried at the end of his life in Egypt in Genesis 50. The story flows smoothly except for one part: Genesis 38. If you connect the last verse of Genesis 37 with the first verse of Genesis 39, the story flows beautifully. But Genesis 38 has nothing to do with Joseph and appears to be just a snapshot of Jacob’s family in Canaan. Since God inspired the writing of Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21), we know that Genesis 38 is there for a reason. And the reason is this: It explains why God sent Joseph to Egypt to prepare a place for Jacob’s family to live in isolation from the world. It reveals the serious moral compromises Jacob’s family was making in Canaan that could have ruined the future of Abraham’s descendants. It proves that God loves His people enough to protect and preserve them through drastic measures if needed. And God loves us that much as well. He loves us enough to do what we may be unwilling to do ourselves to protect our spiritual life. God loves us too much to allow us to stay the way we are Read-thru-the-Bible Acts 4-5
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:00:52 +0000
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