We can go through the Sunday motions, we can carry out the religious exercises, we can pack a Bible under our arms, and sing familiar songs from memory, yet we can still hold grudges against the people who have wronged us......
How Ironic !
In our own way---and it may even be with a little religious manipulation---we'll get back at them.
But that is not God's way.
He shows us the right way.
He gives us the example of Joseph, great man that he was, being supportive, merciful, gracious, generous, and unselfish.
He's not through showing how deeply he cares for them.
Look at this next scene!
"Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. He kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him" (Genesis 45:14--15).
I would imagine they "talked with him!"
They had about twenty-five years' worth of talking to do.
.........And I am confident that every time they went back and started to rehearse their wrongs, Joseph stopped them.
"We're not going there.
That was then, this is now.
God had a plan, and it's all worked out for our good and His glory.
Let's talk about that."
Greatness of a man is truly revealed mainly in our attitude.....!
Shalom
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