Mrs Charity Graber
Pastor's Wife
Cornerstone Baptist Church
Vinton, IA
Forgive and Forget
While getting ready one morning to tackle my day this phrase kept going over and over through my mind. "Forgive and Forget". I am only 35 years old but I have had some trials in my life that could break any person and cause them to question and doubt their faith in God. But you know everything that I have gone through has helped me in my life one way or the other. I kept going back to the life of Joseph in the Bible and the verse that always rings clear to me is when Joseph said Genesis 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. What a life Joseph had. He could have been so angry and bitter towards his brothers for what they did to him. I cannot imagine being put into a cold, wet, dark well only to be sold as a slave to an unknown people not knowing the language or anyone. If it would have been me I would have had a hard time not giving up on people and turning my back on God just to be honest with you. But not Joseph. He used all the trials in his life as a way to grow in his Christian faith. I imagine Joseph as a young teenager full of pride and arrogance. After all he was Jacobs favorite son. God needed to teach Joseph some lessons in life too. We sometimes forget that. I look at Joseph before he went down to Egypt and then I look at him at the end when he is reunited with his family. He has a lot of humility and kindness. Maybe that was the lesson that God wanted Joseph to know. I guess what I am trying to say is that none of us are getting out of this life without trials coming our way. We can either use them to make us stronger or weaker. I was taught at a young age to use everything that comes into my life as a lesson from God'.
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