Are you harboring a grudge against someone for something they did to you in the past?

You may need a bigger view of who God is, how he works, and what he's doing.

Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg explains how a clearer understanding of divine

providence can help us let go of our grievances and rest in God's care.

Ever since the eighth verse of chapter 42, and you may like just to look at it, we have been waiting for the moment to which we come in these opening verses of chapter 45.

Because it is there in the eighth verse of chapter 42 that Joseph first encounters his brothers after all this passage of time.

And we're told there that Joseph recognized them, although they did not recognize him.

And in all of the ensuing events of their back and forth from their land of their birth and into Egypt and so on,

we have been waiting, as it were, for this whole matter to resolve itself. So we come to it

a moment in time. A moment in time. There are moments in time when it would seem as though

the clock stops and the action freezes.

And one has the distinct impression that as a result of what we are now experiencing,

things will never be the same again.

That is, for example, what people testify to when they are able to tell you where they were

on the occasion of discovering the news of the assassination of President Kennedy.

Or in saying similar things in relationship to the destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger.

And there are moments in time for all of us.

Personally, the birth of a child, the loss of a loved one, great moments of

success, big changes in our lives. And while they may not be known to everyone, those moments

are frozen, as it were, for us. They are a moment in time. And I know that when we get to

heaven, if we have the chance to talk with Joseph,

and we say to him, you know, Joseph, in the great ebb and flow of all that you experienced

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