Passage:
15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” 16 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: 17 ‘Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18 His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” 19 But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. 21 So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
(Genesis 50:15-21 ESV)
Song:
His Mercy is More by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa
Lyrics:
What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all knowing He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest the vilest the poor
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
Praise the Lord His mercy is more
Stronger than darkness new every morn
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
Prayer:
O Lord, we desire to adore your name, which is excellent in
all the earth, and whose glory is above the heavens. You are
the maker and disposer of all things; and for your sovereign
pleasure it is that they still exist, and were at first created.
Your hands have made and fashioned us; and all that we enjoy
comes from you. As we are the workmanship of your power,
O make us likewise your spiritual workmanship, created
anew in Christ Jesus, unto holiness and true righteousness.
Give proof that you have formed us for yourself, by caus-
ing us to show forth your praise, and by making us to live
to glory, as we do every day live upon your bounty. Amen.
-Augustus Toplady
