Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Once Jacob had died, Joseph’s brothers thought he might take the opportunity to have his vengeance finally. Joseph reassured them that we would not. He knew he was not God.[1]
Joseph was not God, and that is why he did not attempt revenge. But Joseph does provide for us an excellent example of how God responds to His children.
All of us, who are saved, realize we could never deserve the grace or the mercy God has shown to us. I think most of us live with the regrets of those sins of our past and with disgust at those sins which so easily beset us. We lay them aside only to pick them up again or else to discover there are other sins hidden underneath them. More than one Christian I know makes a regular beeline to the altar to thank God for His mercies and to ask Him to continue.
It seems to me that Joseph provides God’s response; He comforts and speaks kindly and continues to nourish us and ours.
Thanks be to God.
[1] Genesis 50:19 (KJV)
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
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