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Sometimes
I read the passages for the day and write a reflection right away. Sometimes I read it and come back to it
later and reflect. Today’s passage
was one that I waited a bit before starting to write. The whole time
one single verse kept coming to my mind:
Chapter 48:11 when Jacob says to Joseph, “I never expected to see your
face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.”
That
little sentence that seems somewhat insignificant has broken my heart a little
but at the same time given hope. I
began to see the whole story through Jacob’s eyes as a father. His son was gone, and he had given up
hope completely of ever getting him back.
As a parent, even the thought of losing a child causes me to not be able
to breathe.
I
also started thinking of people I know who have grown children who they are
estranged from and do not have a relationship with at all, or have a child who
is involved in drugs or alcohol or something else that is destroying their
lives. I can imagine the heartache
and hopelessness they have to feel as parents. But with God all things are possible and hope is never gone! We see that here with Jacob and
Joseph. God, in His timing,
restored father and son back together again and continued to bless.
Praise
the Lord that all things are possible through Him, and for always being my
source of hope. “The eyes of the
Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.”
(Psalm 33:18).
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