Title: Joseph Revealing Himself
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Even the court of Pharaoh could hear how loudly Joseph wept. What we can see here is that Joseph seems to be a very affectionate person. Who is a healthy person? Is it healthy to have no wrinkles on your face? Some people get more injections on one face, so the symmetry is not good.
The healthiest people are those who have clear feelings of joy and sorrow. I want you to be happy when you are happy and to be sad when you are sad. In our culture, ‘men should not cry’ is wrong. In other words, a person who accepts and possesses all the emotions God has given is a healthy person. This person is a mature person. Also, a healthy person is a person who manages their emotions well. Not only that, I hope you become a person who can maturely express your feelings.
When I was studying abroad, police officers suddenly ran into the school bookstore. Later, I found out that it was a Korean student, but Koreans don't express their emotions well compared to foreigners. It's always far too serious. Even then, a Korean student placed an order to purchase it, but communication with the woman at the bookstore did not work well. A Korean student from Gyeongsang Province: An expressionless face and loud voices made the staff terrified and called the police. will be
What is more important than being ‘successful and rich’ is ‘a well-balanced personality’. As Joseph possesses and manages all his emotions, we hope so too
‘I am Joseph’ (3) How would the brothers react at that time? It would be a hornbill hat. The yosap that was thrown into the pit is alive. The younger brother he sold to Sanggo, who was going to Egypt, became prime minister and is standing in front of them. For the past 22 years, the brothers have lived with great guilt and suffering. How can you harm others and make yourself happy? Perhaps the brothers struggled to forget Joseph, but they could not completely forget him. The eyes of Joseph begging for his life, the eyes of looking at his brothers as they were sold... It was something I could never forget for the rest of my life. However, the younger brother is now standing in front of them and revealing himself.
On TV, right after liberation, living was too poor, there was no food, and there was no way to raise children, so I gave my young daughter to a wealthy neighborhood in the neighborhood as a foster daughter. Since it's the same neighborhood, we check whether it is well connected as we come and go. Then, three months later, the 625 exploded. When I got there in the morning, the house had not been evacuated the night before. Decades have passed. One day, I'm going home. A middle-aged woman came to visit. Her daughter had come to ask questions. Later, the daughter asks her mother the first question, ‘Why did you bring me to that house?’ What does it mean? This is a question that contains the pain of the past years, the resentment that the biological parents abandoned it, and the sorrow, and this is usually our emotion.
But what is surprising to Joseph is that over the past 22 years, he has not nurtured revenge, resentment, or hatred in his heart, but has grown love. Instead of revenge, you are giving love, forgiveness, and blessing. In other words, you can see Joseph ripening from success to service, from growth to maturity. I hope that this kind of Joseph will be ours.
Joseph makes even more surprising words to his brothers who are shocked and terrified (5) It is true that his brothers sold him. But Joseph interprets it this way. ‘My brothers sold me, but in the end it was God’s providence and it was a plan’. (6-8) “God knew that famine would continue in the future, so he first sent me to Egypt through the hands of my brothers, and made me prime minister to protect my father and my brothers’ lives.”
The brothers are saying something completely different from what they thought. From these words of Joseph, we can learn three things.
1) It is not that the event itself is important, but that the interpretation is more important. My son brought his report card, and he was last out of 50 in math. In this case, there are two reactions of parents. 1) Who can't study like that? 2) Now that we've run out, all we have to do is go up. Which one are you? You cannot change what has already happened. interpretation is more important
2) God's providence can always pass with time. We don't know now. We'll know when we pass. Look at Noah, God told us to build an ark, but he told us to go to the top of the mountain and not to the beach. that is not understandable. Also, it's not pear-shaped. It's just a round shape. Also, there are no windows. What if there were windows? I'm going to film all the scenes where the whole world is submerged in water. Then, I would not have been able to live because I was afraid. It didn't make sense at the time, but after a flood came later, it was only then that I found out. Likewise, God's providence is not immediately known.
The important thing is to believe that behind my life, there is God's hand and providence that I do not understand. And you have to obey it. Also, when the time comes, you will know. The same goes for hardship. I don't know why my life doesn't work out. The answers in my life do not belong to me. It is with God.
3) When is the interpretation of Joseph's suffering possible? When is the interpretation of my life possible? When I am in Jesus, the past of my life can be interpreted. Those who do not believe in Jesus are said to be coincidences. When I have faith in Jesus, my suffering, adversity, and the meaning of life are interpreted.
Look at Paul, who was Paul? He was one of the best academics and scholars of his time. Why did such a person want to go to Spain, which is said to be the end of the earth at the time, while not getting married, and being pointed at by his fellow countrymen? Except for God in Paul's life, it is not explained. Likewise, in your life, in your home, God bless you to be found.
There is this saying. ‘God preserves your life with a great salvation’ (7), that is, it means that God’s great salvation was in your life. Why did Joseph have to spend an unfair prison life? Why did you become Prime Minister? I didn't become prime minister just to save my brothers from famine. It was to accomplish God's great work of salvation.
What to think about here is why is my business not doing well? Why are relationships difficult and family difficult? I don't know right now. I don't know very well. But the important thing is that such a process is absolutely necessary. If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't be here. I don't believe in Esu.
In other words, he did it to save me and to make me believe in Jesus.
These days, the number of testimonial meetings held at the church has decreased significantly. In the past, there were many. However, those who testify have something in common. Hong Soo-hwan, a player we invited before, and Lee Jin-woo, the talent, all lived a dramatic life. Some of you will hear such a testimony and wonder why I don't have such a thing. But there is no need to envy. Those people, like you, are people who will never believe when you gently say, “Believe in Jesus.” It is a human being who only opens his eyes to himself and to God only after he has experienced going back and forth between heaven and hell several times.
The important thing is that there is the providence of salvation even in suffering. We must believe that the providence of salvation exists even in our failures. Please believe that all of my work has to do with God's salvation.
Why did God make me believe in Jesus? You don't know well at first.
However, knowing this secret little by little is the life of faith.
Like Joseph, I pray that we will interpret our lives from God's perspective and become part of the work of salvation.