We’ve all had wrongs done to us and felt the struggle against responding vengefully or letting bitterness taint a relationship in the future.
In Genesis 50, when Jacob finally dies, Joseph’s brothers realize that they have lost their fatherly buffer against the wrath of their wronged brother. They spin an ill-concealed little white lie, saying that Jacob charged them to tell Joseph to forgive them, when he was gone.
A humbling response:
“But Joseph said to them, ‘Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place?”
Holding a bitter, unforgiving heart is setting myself in God’s place.
God is God. He has purposes in evil that can produce great good … and He has promised that evil will never go unanswered. It will receive its fullest recompense—on the wicked or on His Son, in their place.
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