Each year I begin at the Bible's beginning and read my way through the scriptures...it's a great exercise and discipline that is well worth the while. After a while one can remember the context in advance and still the words come off the page and strike into the soul to console, to convict, to question, to give assurance, to smile at, to wonder and ponder...every emotion comes back over and over. About 35 years ago, a young Dad with my first two of my children still very young, I ran across the words from the story of Joseph and his brothers in the dramatic encounter when Joseph reveals himself to his brothers. Remember, the brothers, some 14 years before, had sold their brother Joseph into slavery. Unknown to them, God favored Joseph in his enslavement. Joseph arose through God's providence to become Pharaoh's second in command. He went through the agony of years of enslavement, but God through the providence of some dreams Pharaoh had to exalt him to a ...