Please read Genesis 45:1-14 before you read the devotional.
Human life is often so messy. We might like everything in our lives to be far more clear and distinct, the next step in our lives to be obvious, and the way forward that we should travel marked clearly. We might prefer human life lived on level, smooth places. However, it does not take long in life to know that the terrain of human life is rocky, hilly, and difficult. There are many twists and turns in life. Other people act upon us, sometimes graciously and sometimes not. We act upon the lives of others, sometimes with grace and kindness, and sometimes not.
In the midst of the confusion of human life, we may wonder where God has been. Of course, it takes a mature faith, meditation, and openness, to see the ways of God in the midst of it all. We can often look back and paths that, at the time, we thought of as painful and difficult. Yet, God has used those paths to bring us to a gracious, healing end. The end human beings seek is often self-centered, self-destructive, evil, and hateful. Yet, the end God seeks is reconciliation and peace. God seeks the preservation of life. God is so sovereign that even mixed human motives God can work through to bring people reconciliation. Of course, the fact that reconciliation does not always happen on this earth means that some healing of relationships is a promise that will not occur except in eternity.
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