21.08.31 Surprise - Genesis 42:27-43:5

31-aug-2021-slider-image.jpg?w=1140&ssl=1 Surprises are wonderful things, aren’t they? Normally they bring shouts of joy, big smiles, maybe even leaping up and down simply overwhelmed! I love watching people when they are totally surprised. But once in a great while a surprise is terrifying, isn’t it? I left you yesterday with 9 brothers walking out of a storehouse city in Egypt, leading their mules loaded with precious grain during a terrible famine. They are all sons of Jacob, heading back on a trip of about 200 miles to their families who are near starvation. As they stop for their first night’s rest, they pull those heavy sacks off their mule’s backs and the record says: “At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey and he saw his silver in his sack. Shocked, he said, ‘my silver has been returned, here it is in my sack!’ Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, ‘what is this that God has done to us?”

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Or copy and go to this link: https://walkingwithjesus.ddawj-365.com/tuesday-31-august-2021-surprise-genesis-4227-435/ Today’s Scripture is Genesis 42:27-43:5. Choose below to read or listen.Genesis 42:27-38