Life is Precious

Don’t let the pain of one phase destroy the joy of all the rest of your life. Persevere the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time.

I sometimes try to imagine the personal feelings of Joseph when he was sold off as a slave by his own brothers to foreigners and was taken away into Egypt. Can you imagine his first night in Egypt, oh the pain he must have gone through on that first night. No doubt there must have been silent bitter tears shed that night. No man can capture that kind of anguish in human words - his personal trial had just begun. Isn’t it true that most of our grieves are brought about by our own family members?

His personal tragedy did not end there. Later he lands up in prison because some loose ladies falsely accused him and the man of the house – a complete Egyptian moron, believed her without proper investigation.

But through all the bitter tears, the anguish of his soul, his loneliness in a strange country longing for his father and mother, when everything seemed to be going against him, there is one verse that leaps out of the Holy Bible in reference to his life and that verse is this - “But the Lord was with him!!” That made all the difference in his life.

When Jacob was mistreated by his father-in-law and cheated on his wages 10 times - another verse leaps out in reference to his bitterness - “I have seen all that Laban has done to you!!” And that made all the difference.