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When God Seems Absent 3.0
Genesis 45:1-15
by Eric Stillman
May 18th, 2008

 

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We’re in the third week of a four week series on the life of Joseph and how to follow God when He seems absent.  Many of you can relate to feeling the absence of God in the midst of your struggles – despite your prayers, you can’t find a job, or your kids are rebelling, or your marriage is struggling, or sometimes life just seems meaningless.  Where is God in all of that?  Does he even care?  When you are in the midst of situations like that, the story of Joseph is one of the best places to go – it is an incredible story of how God is very much at work even when he is seemingly absent.  Even when He seems completely uninvolved, and the things that are being done against you seem meaningless, He is very much at work.    But how are we supposed to follow Him when we can’t see where He’s leading?

Let me give a quick recap of the first two weeks - Joseph was the favorite son of Jacob, who gave him a many-colored coat, and had dreams where the rest of the family would bow down to him.  As a result of all of this, his brothers hated him and sold him into slavery, convincing their father that he was dead.  Last week we saw how, even though he ended up as the head of the household for the commander in chief of the Egyptian army, he was imprisoned again when he was falsely accused of sexually attacking his master’s wife.