“And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.”
Genesis 45:5
We cautioned yesterday on the importance of moving on and not being focused on rejection.
So how do you do that?
You shift your focus.
You move your attention from the rejection to the spiritual mission God has for you.
In our text above I have underlined that portion that speaks to this very issue.
Joseph realized that years spent in self-pity and a desire for revenge would cost him dearly.
What God had for him to do needed all his energy and he could not spare wasting that energy on feeling sorry for himself and plotting his ‘get even’ strategy.
As a matter of fact, he chose to be free and serve God, not in bondage to his past rejection.
It is in that effort to ‘guard his heart’ from rejection that he was able to move forward with God.
I have many ‘pulls’ from life trying to draw me away from Gods’ best for me.
You do to.
Don’t let rejections from your past do that!
Keep your eyes firmly gazing at the spiritual mission God has for your life.
Joseph probably faced hundreds of times in his life in Egypt
His life could have been consumed with a passion to see his brothers pay for what they did.
Don’t waste your passion that way.
Focus, not on what is behind you from the hands of man, but instead, on what lays before you from the hand of God.
When Jesus was on the cross he didn’t focus on those who had rejected and crucified him.
His focus was on the spiritual mission the Father had sent Him to complete.
The words: “It is finished!” testify of His focus.
Will you keep your focus on the spiritual mission God has for you?
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