The Bible Recap Day 28

 The Bible Recap Day 28

Genesis 46-47

God Shot: Look to God for deliverance 


My God Shot is different than that of the book. But there is a reason. Several years ago I was chasing a rabbit through the Bible trying to find out how Pharaoh got all the Israelites to be his slaves. Chasing that rabbit I found out that it happened because Jacob and his family came into the land of Egypt, invited by his son Joseph, and welcomed by Pharaoh. He was given his land to raise his livestock and all seemed to be well. I am sure that we will see the decline later on but HOW did Pharaoh get all the that many slaves to man his fields? There is some artistic license here, and I am writing this down as my God shot so that I remember what I was thinking so don’t hold me to this as fact and yes there is a God shot in here. At the end of chapter 47 we see that the Egyptians were starving so they sold all their stuff to Joseph, ie Pharaoh’s court, to eat. Then the next year they had to sell themselves and their property to him for food and grain to plant in their fields. So my thought process is this. Instead of looking to God for a way through the famine they just did what made sense. God was not a part of their decision and in the end it cost their families for generations as they went into slavery. They were called servants here in this passage so I may be mistaken. But my God shot holds true even if my interpretation is wrong. To move forward in life we must seek God. We must follow what he asks us to do even if it is the hard thing now because we don’t know what the easy thing now will cost us later in life. 



 Now, we don’t know whether or not they sought God because this story was not written by their families so we cannot factually say they didn’t. If that is the case and they were following God into this deal with Egypt and in the future their families were enslaved it does not change the power of God. It made it harder for them to trust him, sure, but when he sent Moses to deliver them shouldn’t they have been a more willing party to follow God’s chosen person? Because God still sought them out and loved them and eventually led them to their freedom. And they were still evil little people in the end

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