How do you forgive a person who has ruined your life? How do you forgive people who have spent their lives working harm and evil against you? We have a saying, “Time heals all wounds.” I don’t know that “heal” is the right word. Maybe the word “forgets” may be more accurate because once the harm is brought back to mind, the hurt from the wound quickly returns to our minds and hearts. While healing can happen, the scars can still remain. Some of the hurts in my life reach 40 years back now. But they are not gone. They are healing but they are not gone. We have been looking at the life of Joseph and looking at where God is in the midst of suffering. Jacob has died and Joseph and his brothers have buried their father in Canaan just as he instructed. But this leaves Joseph with these brothers who hated him, wanted him dead, and sold him into slavery. We are told back in Genesis 47:28 that Jacob will live 17 years in Egypt. This means it has been about 40 years since Joseph’s brothers have sold him into slavery. What will Joseph do with his brothers now that his father is dead? What has Joseph learned about God for these 40 years?

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