It gets good before it gets better

It gets good before it gets better

"Jacob exclaimed, "You have deprived me of my children! Joseph has disappeared, Simeon is gone, and now you want to take Benjamin, too. Everything is going against me!" (Gen.42.36 NLT)

When we look back at our lives, we can sometimes find out that it gets good before it gets better. This is me stopping short of saying it gets bad before it gets good. That is the story of our text. 

Jacob, in his thinking has lost Joseph, to him Joseph was dead. Little wonder, he protects Benjamin with everything he's got. He would not let him out if his sight. To worsen the matter, Simeon is been seized by the Joseph that he thought was dead but he did not know this. And he has been told that his children will not be sold food until Benjamin was produced to prove that the brothers were indeed honest men. He is forced to let go of the one thing he wants to hold on to in order to seven everything he is willing to let go. God has a sense of humour. 

So he cries out "Everything is going against me!" But you must understand that you are not the author of your life's script, God is. 

"Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day. Your thoughts--how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them!"(Ps.139.16-17)

And he has scripted it in such away that you think everything was working against you when in fact they are all working in your favour. I'm such this He does so the devil is left guessing. 

Nothing is against you, everything is working in your favour, the good, the not so good and the very good - all in your favour. So, it gets good before it gets better. 

Good day,
Have a great day today,
Emmanuel Okoro,
(aka Mr. Lift) 

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