...settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. - Genesis 47:6b
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. - Exodus 1:8
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” - Exodus 1:22
During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. - Exodus 2:23
"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." - C.S. Lewis
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. - James 1:2-3
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. - Ephesians 2:10
“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” - Luke 22:42
