I was stunned by whole chapter.
What I think of Joseph's responses to all that happened to him is that Joseph has been through hell with his brothers. I was shocked that Joseph forgave his brothers for selling him to the Egyptians.
When Joseph made himself known and cried out to his brothers when he said, “Come close to me.” I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! For two years now there has been famine in the land. "But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. Genesis 45:4, 6-8 NIV. How would I have responded to that is I would have been angry after two years seeing my siblings. I could not face that moment. Seeing them would hurt me and it would have taken me back down to memory lane. It is a challenge to forgive someone that had done you wrong. That is why we need the Lord in our lives to help us forgive. It takes a lot of prayer to forgive someone. I admire Joseph for that of forgiving his brothers because most people struggle with forgiveness.
The character I found myself in is the main character I relate to the most is Joseph. When I read his entire story, I said to myself, "wow, I understand what he been through, I been through the same hell as he did." Jacob favored Joseph the most out of all his children.
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