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Essential 100—Read: Genesis 45:1-46:7 “Don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives.” ~Genesis 45:5 (NLT) Useful idiots! With all due respect, that’s what I would call Joseph’s brothers. Twenty-two [...]
Perhaps, like Joseph, people close to you have deeply hurt you. To trust that God will use what was hurtful for his glory and your good may be the hardest thing in the world for to do right now—but do it anyway. To grow bitter and withhold forgiveness is not only to discount the Sovereignty of God, it is to activity work against it—and that is always bad for you. As Anne Lamont says, “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” So don’t be a rat.
Ray Noah
Lead Pastor of Portland Christian Center
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