Why forgive?

 We all get hurt from time to time. Sometimes it's on purpouse, but most times it's more of an accident. The doer doesn't even know what he did. A small word they don't know the affect of. So why should we forgive? In most cases we should forgive 'cause they have no idea what's just happened. We should forgive because it's the best thing for us. We can't  control anyone else but ourself. We can't control that someone might want to hurt us. But if we do our best not to hurt them or give them any reason to hurt us, then we have done what we can. All that's left is forgivness. When we forgive something happens in us, we let the pain go. It has no power over us.

Genesis 45:4-8 

4  So Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, please. And they came near. And he said, I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.5 And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Joseph

Why did God allow Joseph to suffer?

So that they all could be saved. He was the one to make sure there was enough food for the people. God had always a plan to get Joseph to Egypt. I am not saying that he gave Josephs brother their jealousy, I am just saying that He made the merchindisers come by at that moment so they wouldn't kill him.

Have you ever suffered for someone else's sake? What happened to your perspective as a result?

I haven't done any big things. Not sure that I have ever really suffered for anyone else. In a way I am to busy wiht not being in the way, being to agreeable. ..


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