The Strong God...

What image of God do we hold in our hearts? Do we honestly believe in the ‘strength of God’? It’s perhaps easy for us to toss around the idea of His strength in discussions, but when we are facing a really tough situation, I wonder if we don’t waffle in our confidence of His raw strength…
“If it has to be, it has to be…And may the Strong God give you grace in that man’s eyes…” ~Genesis 43:11,14
The famine got worse and Jacob told his sons to go back to Egypt and buy more grain. The boys reminded him they couldn’t go back unless they had Benjamin with them, that’s what the man in charge insisted upon. This scared Jacob. He already thought he’d lost Joseph and didn’t want to lose another young son. But the threat of starvation drove him to send Benjamin with them. When we view this story we can clearly see God’s plan. Jacob didn’t have that privilege. He didn’t know that Joseph was alive and was the man they were dealing with. He didn’t know God had planted Joseph to sustain them through the draught. He didn’t know they were being included in a huge story of blessing. To him it just felt like potential loss. But he summoned his confidence in the ‘strength of God’ and blessed the day. Wow! This is a great lesson of faith. We too don’t see God hand in our story as it evolves. We too can’t know how we are being written into a story of huge blessing. But can we follow the faith of the fathers and summons our confidence in THE STRONG GOD and bless the day? ~verlon