tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post2264305568048691806..comments2024-03-12T10:35:54.578-05:00Comments on Homeward Bound: A Family Legacy Part 2Michael Boldea Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09695469447648193872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-82376462021625303122008-04-06T11:08:00.000-05:002008-04-06T11:08:00.000-05:00Thanks, Sister Bonnie! Everything you said describ...Thanks, Sister Bonnie! Everything you said describes where I have been for 4 weeks. Yet, 4 weeks is not like the 17(?) years during which Joseph waited on the Lord. ISAIAH 40 tells of God's goodness toward those who wait on Him. How easy it is to start to wonder, as Joseph must have wondered thoughout his 17(?) years, if God sees us waiting and wanting to be released - other times, He is the one who has told us to go, and yet we ignore Him and continue to convince ourselves that we are still waiting on Him. This calls for some serious prayer and fasting! Every name listed in HEBREWS 11, including Joseph's (11:22), all had one thing in common: FAITH - the evidence of things not yet seen, the substance of things hoped for. Blessings to you and to Brother Mike for the reminder of these treasures from the life of a man who was a type and shadow of Jesus Christ, our Savior.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-9243771614009607772008-04-04T19:09:00.000-05:002008-04-04T19:09:00.000-05:00The account of Joseph's life has been such a power...The account of Joseph's life has been such a powerful word to me over the years in many ways. I am also reminded of Paul's lines "Paul, a prisoner of the Lord Jesus Christ..." We may not have physical bars and locks keeping us in a situation, but whatever our 'prison' it is the place where the Lord often does the greatest work in us, humbling us and making us dependent only on Him. How we struggle and try to escape, or feel that the Lord has not heard our prayers, keeping us there longer than we think He should.....<BR/>On Joseph's part, I think for a while he struggled with being a prisoner, thinking he had been all but buried and forgotten, desperately clinging to the faint hope that the butler would remember his cause.....yet nothing happened.....until the Lord's time. Whilst the Scriptures don't make it clear, I wonder whether it was not until those final months before his unexpected release, that he stopped struggling at last and relinquished completely to the Lord's hand, whatever may come. <BR/>And then He was taken out, dressed in royal robes fit for the presence of Pharaoh.....because it was the Lord's time, and Joseph was ready.<BR/>Truly "a foundation laid in suffering, for a future glorious work". Thanks Michael.Bonnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16861206381493071230noreply@blogger.com