Joseph

February 13

Genesis 45:16-20, 46:5-6

Together again

When the king of Egypt heard about Joseph’s brothers, and that their father was still in Canaan, he said to Joseph, “Let your brothers go back to Canaan and fetch your father and everything they own, and let them stay here in Egypt.”

So Joseph sent his brothers back to Canaan with wagons to fetch their wives and children, and their father Jacob.

From that time on, Jacob and all his sons—their wives and their children—stayed together in Egypt, where they had more than enough food and land.

Do family break-ups always have a happy ending?

Jacob and all his sons were together again. How happy he must have been to have everyone safely together after all his family had been through over the years. Jacob had honored God, and God had kept His promise to bless him.

Perhaps you know of a family that is no longer together. Death, divorce, or living far from one another can scatter a family like pieces of a broken puzzle.

God loves families and will always bless those who honor Him. Whether family members live in one place or are scattered all over the world, God can bless them wherever they are.

God can help bring families back together, even when they have been hurt by divorce. But God lets moms and dads make their own choices and will not force them to do things they don’t want to do.

There may not always be a happy ending for families here on earth, but a time is coming when all who believe will become one big family in Heaven—forever and ever!

Verse for today

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you” John 14:18.