Genesis = Today

Just finished reading the book of Genesis again.  Whew ... this book could sound like a modern day afternoon television program.  There is a little bit of everything found in Genesis .....

     distrust, lies, (Abraham, Laban)

     deceiving your father/husband (Rebekah, Jacob)

      unfaithfulness to daughters (Lot)

      unfaithfulness to wife (Abraham)

      doubting God's promises (Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, Rachel)

      murder (Simeon, Levi)

      hatred of siblings, betrayal of siblings (Joseph's siblings)

      immorality (Sodom)

      rape (Shechem)

     liars (Joseph's brothers)

and the list goes on and on......

I am reminded of God's  soverignity  in each and every life and situation.  Then and now.  Those things that we abhor and think "how could they" God used for good to accomplish His ways.  And so He continues to do today.  Not in Joseph's wildest thoughts, when he was sold to some Ishmaelites, did he ever imagine that he would be "set over all the land of Egypt. (Genesis 41:41).  That God would use him to preserve his very own family from starvation and extinction.

What an encouragement it is to know that this same God sees and knows all things.  Just as He was sovereign over the lives of the people in Genesis, so He is sovereign over all the details of our lives today.

Trust Him !

"This God--His way is perfect;

the word of the LORD proves true;

He is a shield for all those who

take refuge in Him."

2 Samuel 22:31