HOW GOD SENDS HIS PEOPLE.

 

We are told that that Gods ways are not man’s ways in Isaiah 55:8. The way God sends His people is not the same way man send others. There are numerous examples as we shall see of God sending people but we would not think that it was God sending them unless it was written that it was God who sent them.

 

JOSEPH

We read that it was God who sent Joseph to Egypt. Gen 45:7 says that it was God who sent Joseph to Egypt to preserve a remnant in the earth and to keep them alive for many survivors. In verse 8, Joseph insists that it was not His brothers that sent him but God sent him.

Psalm 105:17 also repeats that it was God who sent Joseph.

Let us see then how God sent Joseph.

It started with his brothers being jealous of him and wanting to kill him but they finally decided to sell him as a slave, never to see him again and they lied to their father that he was killed by a wild animal. Gen 37:17-33.

In Egypt he was sold in Potiphar’s house but we see that God allowed him to be tempted by Potiphar’s wife for many days and when she realized she should couldn’t convince him, she falsely accused him of wanting to defile her and therefore Joseph was cast in the worst prison where the kings prisoners were. Gen 39:7-20 

This was not the end, he was a blessing to the prisoners and interpreted dreams for them but he was forgotten by the chief butler for two years even after Joseph requesting to be remembered by him.

Finally Joseph was taken out of prison to be a ruler next to Pharaoh. Gen 40:5-23, 41:1-44.

Psalm 105:19 explains all these that Joseph underwent was that it was the word of the Lord that was trying Him.

We see that God sending joseph involved his brothers being jealous of him, plot of him being killed, being sold to slavery to die there and thus destroying his destiny, false accusations, doing good and being forgotten. Therefore, if you see any of the above mentioned in your life, God is probably sending you.

 

SAUL

When God sent Saul to Samuel for Him to be anointed as the King, it was by allowing the donkeys to be lost. 1sam 9:16-17.

God sends people also by allowing them to incur losses

 

PAUL

Paul explains that he had to go back to Galatia to strengthen the disciples in Acts 18:23. We realise therefore that he had already established a church there. We read previously in Acts 16:6 that they were going from Jerusalem to Asia to preach the gospel but before they reached there, while in Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit not to go to Asia. This is the time they established a church in Galatia. But reading in Gal 4:13-14, we see that the way God prevented them from going to Asia was by Paul becoming sick. Paul didn’t have a plan initially of planting a church in Galatia, his aim was to go to Asia. We can therefore conveniently say that God sent him to plant a church in Galatia through a sickness.

A sickness also can be a way of God sending you.

 

JESUS

God sent Jesus to die for our sins. 1Cor 15:3. God did not allow him to die a decent death, but it says that He was disfigured beyond human recognition, Is 52:14, He was without clothes. Jn 19:23-24

God therefore sends his children but allowing them to be mocked, despised and shamed.

 

God is perfect in wisdom. Let us therefore stop murmuring in what God allows us to face when we are truly seeking to do His will and to please Him in everything.

 

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