Genesis 43: 1-10: “And the famine was sore in the land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.”
It doesn’t matter how much you want to avoid a problem at some stage you have to face it. Jacob tried to avoid sending Benjamin down to Egypt but eventually they ran out of food and had to go down and get some food. In fact they had waited for so long that Judah told his father that they had enough time to go to Egypt twice in the time that they had waited. This section talks about the beginning of Judah’s rehabilitation. We saw yesterday that, by the grace of God, everyone can be rehabilitated for eternity if they believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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