Learn the Bible in a Year - Episode 4 - Genesis 37:4

Learn the Bible in a Year

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Genesis 37:4 – When his brothers saw that their father loved [Joseph] more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

Joseph’s was one of the first dysfunctional families in the Bible – though there are many more. Wherever two or more sinners live under the same roof, there’s often trouble.

Joseph was actually part of the problem. He had a dream in which the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to him. He shared the dream with his family but, if he’d been wiser, he would’ve kept it to himself. Joseph’s family understood the dream to mean that, one day, they’d bow down to Joseph — and they were offended by this. But Joseph didn’t know how difficult his life would become before his dream came true.

This is the Christian life in miniature. We know our story ends well, and that God is with us on every page. Sometimes things go badly but, even then, we know our glorious future will soon be here.

God’s plan was for Joseph to rule over Egypt, and his brothers helped him get there. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” wrote Paul in Romans 8. The devil is against us. Our family can be against us. The world can be against us. And life itself can seem against us. But if God is for us, there’s no power on Earth or in hell that can prevail against us.

Believers always win in the end.

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