It Will Happen

 DEVOTION

TO HEBREWS

IT WILL HAPPEN

Heb 11:22

22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions about his bones.

NIV

Knowing the story of Joseph, how his brothers, ended up selling him off to traders, and how he ended up in Egypt and ultimately saved his whole family from the famine, we get the picture he was at the very beginning of the four hundred years of the Israelites spent in bondage in Egypt. Yet, despite all that Joseph went through, being hated by his brothers, sold off to strangers, ended up in prison, and ultimately became second in command of all Egypt. He never lost faith in God. Life is not always a bed of roses, we encounter thorns along the way, sometimes many thorns, yet what matters is our faith in Jesus, our trust in Jesus, our trust in our Lord God Almighty, our Father who is in Heaven. How can we not always have faith in God? Joseph knew that someday God would lead the people back to the land of promise, the place of his birth. He knew God would not let his people suffer forever under the control of those who worshipped other gods. Joseph knew through faith, that God would bring his people back to the land of promise and wanted his bones brought back there when it happened. He did not see this event but could see an exodus from bondage to freedom with his faith. This is our story, although, in a physical sense, we are not in bondage as the Israelites were, however, in another sense we are in physical bondage to this decaying, or perishable and corruptible body. By faith we see a day coming when God will come for us and lead us out of this bondage into a place of promise, our eternal home. There will be a difference in that the Israelites plundered the Egyptians when they left, and we will not bring anything of this world with us but leave it all behind for it will soon perish. Our exodus is going to be leaving our bondage in this flesh to being made completely new, having a full transition from corruptible to incorruptible, from perishable to imperishable, from mortal to immortal. We cannot see it this transformation, but by faith, we believe it will happen, the same faith Joseph had when he gave instructions about carrying his bones out of Egypt. He knew it would happen. Because we live by faith, we know it will happen.