Thursday, March 11, 2021

 "And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-Paaneah. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt." (Gen 41,45)

After dark night the dawn will come - yes, it will surely come and will not be late! Mother Basilea Schlink often repeated that with God a suffering is never the last thing. If we have chosen God's way and now have to go through difficulties, they too will end one day and we will be able to go out into freedom. 

Joseph was liberated after years in a dark dungeon and could rise like the sun - or better to say, he even became the sun (v. 45). Thus the followers of the Lamb, who walk in His way, even if they are lead through difficulties and self-denial, become precious to others, they are filled with the heavenly treasures of wisdom and truth.

Safenat Paneach is the perfect forerunner of the savior of the world, who was exalted to the highest glory from the deepest humiliation: "Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow." (Phil 2,9-10)

“I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless yo...