Monday... Intentions do not always turn out the way that they are intended.

Everything that the evil one throws at us to hurt us must first go through God's love for us and God changes the purpose from bad to a purpose of good. There are so many benefits of being a follower of God and this is one of them.

As you remember the story of Joseph, his brothers hated him and when he was young they tried to hurt him by selling him into slavery. Eventually they found that he had become the key leader in Egypt during a time of famine and they with their families and their father came to Egypt to live because God was using Jospeh to take care of the problems of the famine. But after the death of their father they were afraid that Joseph would repay them for what they had done to him.

Genesis 50:18 (MSG) says, "Then the brothers went in person to him, threw themselves on the ground before him and said, 'We'll be your slaves.'"

Verses 19-20 (NLT) continues, "Joseph replied, 'Don't be afraid of me. Am I God that I can punish you? You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.'" The MESSAGE paraphrase says it this way, "Don't you see, you planned evil against me but God used the same plans for my good."

Now we don't know the purpose behind the pandemic that we are going through but before it happened the purpose for it went through God's love and he changed the purpose from bad to good for his followers. Now it hasn't been easy to go through, but the purpose was changed for good in our lives.

The end is not over yet. Even though the great famine was happening back in Joseph's time he was put into place to bring good out of it for his family. And we don't know the full good that will come from this pandemic but God has a plan and his intended purpose for good will come to pass. That is the way he works! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Tuesday... It is so worth it. It really is!

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