..."Everything is against me!" - Genesis 42:36
Eventually, Benjamin along with
Jacob's other sons learned that their brother Joseph was second in command in
Egypt. Joseph revealed his identity, and Jacob was reunited with his son whom
he had not seen for more than 13 years. He had thought Joseph to be dead.
So often we believe our dreams are
dead. There seems to be nothing left in our world to live for. Everything
appears to be against us. During these times, God is doing His deepest
behind-the-scenes work. During these times, God is performing a deeper work in
each of us -- a work that cannot be seen.
Someone said, "When clients began leaving my ad
agency and it dried up for no apparent reason, it appeared "everything was
against me." I could not see that God was orchestrating a whole new
calling on my life. At the moment, it seemed like the worst thing in the world.
It seemed that I had been a failure. But God said, "No." All the
years before had been preparation for what God's ultimate calling would be. One
of God's methods for directing His children's steps is through drying up
resources: a job loss, a career change, or a disaster. In these times we are
willing to listen more intently, and to seek God in ways we would not normally
do. C.S. Lewis once wrote, "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in
our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf
world." [C.S.Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan Publishing
Company, 1962), 93.]
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