This post is Day 15 in a series of studies about “The Life of Joseph”. I strongly suggest you begin with the introduction to this study, please click here to read it.
Feel free to comment below with your own thoughts about each verse and how you will be acting on each thought. Also, if you haven’t yet signed up to receive the notifications of new studies, you can do that today. (The form is at the bottom of the page).
The Life of Joseph – Day 15
Genesis 42:3-5
Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him. So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.
The Thought
We read here of a parent fearing for his son. His previous experience had left a long lasting scar, and his treatment of the youngest of his children was consequently different. Benjamin was not allowed to leave home because Joseph had done so and never returned. How many people today suffer from a parental discipline which resulted from a previous bad experience?
Many people have visited psychiatrists and psychologists looking for inner peace after serious family problems either as a child, or as an adult, but only God can really bring deep healing.
Joseph himself, without his faith, could have suffered deep psychological hurts because of the way he was treated by his brothers, and we are not told how he was treated by the Ishmaelites who bought him and took him to Egypt! Interestingly, in Genesis 37, it was the Ishmaelites who bought Jospeh, but the Midianites who sold him to Potiphar’s household. Opinions vary on why this is, either the two tribes were related or the names are different titles for the same people group. It is not important for our study!
Action
Think today how many parents treat their children according to hurts from their own past. We are all affected by unresolved issues concerning past experiences, unless we receive divine healing! That is always available through Jesus.
The Lord tells us to forget the former things and not to dwell on the past (Isaiah 43:18) because He is doing a new thing!
Pray for “new things” to be evident in your own life and those you care for today.
This post is Day 2 in a series of studies about “#SUBJECT”. I strongly suggest you begin with the introduction to this study, please click here to read it.
Feel free to comment below with your own thoughts about each verse and how you will be acting on each thought. Also, if you haven’t yet signed up to receive the notifications of new studies, you can do that today. (The form is at the bottom of the page).
#SUBJECT – Day 1
#BIBLEREF
#BIBLEVERSE
The Thought
#TEXT
Action
#PRAYER
For a full list of online studies available on this site, please click here.
If there is a subject you would like to see on this site, please use the comment section below or drop us an email (there’s a link at the very top of the page). We can’t promise to cover them all, and our studies are usually prepared a month or two in advance, so please be patient.
For a full list of physical resources available through this site, please click here.
This post is the 15th in a study on "The Life of Joseph," focusing on Genesis 42:3-5. It discusses Jacob's fear for Benjamin's safety due to past trauma and connects it to modern parental discipline influenced by unresolved issues. It emphasizes seeking divine healing through God for true inner peace and renewal.
EN 
FR