Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
A song we sometimes sing at church asks the question, "Does Jesus care?" Then it goes on to say, "0 yes, He cares. " Yet I sometimes hesitate to "bother" Him with the little troubles and frustrations that clutter my daily life.
Could my hesitation mean that I have turned down my Lord's invitation to cast my cares upon Him and accepted the voice of satan telling me my worries are too insignificant to take to the Lord?
Could it be that Satan is saying, “Surely you don't believe the King ' of kings and the Lord of lords would be concerned that you've lost your job and have no idea where you'll find another." We begin to feel a bit uneasy and unsure, then we remember that this same Lord is concerned with one lost coin, one lost sheep, and one sparrow that falls.
Joseph knew that God had cared for him when he was a kidnap victim, a servant, and a prisoner. When no one else cared, God did. God brought him from sitting in a pit to sitting on Pharaoh's throne!
0 yes, He cares; I know He cares, His heart is touched with my grief; When the days are weary, the long nights dreary, I know my Savior cares.
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
According; to an old saying, "If life deals you a lemon, make lemonade.“ The amazing story of Joseph tells us that God does exactly that for his people. In the words of Paul, "We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him" (Romans 8:28).
Joseph grew up the favorite of his father, but the nemesis of his brothers, who sold him to a Midianite trader. He was dragged off to Egypt as a slave. In Egypt he won the favor of his master, Potiphar, but Potiphar's wife managed to have him sent to prison. There he won his way into the hearts of his jailers. He correctly predicted the future of a fellow prisoner, but was forgotten.
Finally, the former prisoner remembered, and Joseph got the chance to interpret Pharaoh's dream. Thereupon he was elevated to the highest position in the land next to Pharaoh himself. In that lofty role he managed to save his whole family. His brothers meant to harm him, but God worked it for good.
God loves us that's why he gave his only begotten son to die for us, he has good intentions towards us.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
