Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die. I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
Take your brother also and go back to the man at once. And may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.
Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.
Behind his apparent harshness lies complete and generous forgiveness of the wrong done him, and a real understanding of the way God controls human destiny. Joseph is clearly a man of deep feeling, moved to tears of sorrow and joy.
Under each new stress the brothers show a genuine change of attitude from the old days. Twenty years have not obliterated their sense of guilt. They will not behave towards the new favorite as they did towards the old.
Why?
Judah takes responsibility for the elder brother among them. He bears the blame before his father all his life if he could not bring his brother back.
Joseph's dream comes true, all his brothers now down before him to the ground.
Joseph wept with joy and sorrow under God's blessing he became the savior to his family and his lost and frustration are God's grace for his position now.
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三個要對付的問題：誠信，唯利是圖，嫉妒
雅各無奈的把結果交給神。人在有辦法的時候還是堅持，直到沒有辦法時，才交託給神。
他們沒有隨便帶一個人來，有誠信。
上回沒有拿走的銀子又帶回來，沒有唯利是圖
吃飯時便雅憫菜比較多，其他人只是感恩，沒有嫉妒。
約瑟似乎在整他們，是給他們悔改的機會。我們不要以為神在整我們，神在給我們悔改的機會．
行公義好憐憫．
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How?
God's way is beyond our way and what we should do is obey God's word and wait and be patient.
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