Everything
is against me! (Genesis
42:36)
This
is a familiar story about famine in the Middle East, and a father trying to
save his family from starvation by finding food wherever it could be found. In
this case food was available in Egypt. Ten of his eleven sons (a twelfth had
died from an animal attack) had already made one trip. They brought back food
and supplies but had to leave another son Simeon behind. Now they need food again, but have been warned not to come back unless they bring their youngest brother.
Jacob
had already lost Rachel his wife and Joseph his favorite son. Simeon was
imprisoned in Egypt and now he was being asked to risk losing Benjamin his youngest
son, the only remaining child of his wife Rachel. It seemed to him one more
loss and he would die. But without food they would all die. And yet not all was
as it seemed.
What
appeared to him as misfortune, (Gloom,
despair and agony on me...) was actually the providential hand of
God getting ready to grant his wildest dream. Jacob had no idea how God was
working in the background or what he had in store for him and his family.
When
was the last time you asked, Ever
had one of those days? Kind of changes the meaning, doesn't it?
Have
you ever had one of those days when God was working in your behalf, but you
couldn't see it?
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