Do you ever feel that your life started badly, in the wrong family, with the wrong gifts, carrying a hurt you never chose? This sermon sets two brothers side by side: Judah, who felt second best and went on to complicate life for himself and everyone close to him, and Joseph, who was wronged and still stayed honest (Genesis 37-50). It turns out the past need not define the present, and God writes even the most tangled life stories into a larger one. Listen if you want to stop driving through life with your eyes fixed on the rear-view mirror.
When Life Starts Badly
Responsible
Andy Stanley once said, “Your lack of responsibility will eventually become someone else’s responsibility.” In other words, if you don’t take responsibility for what has been entrusted to you, someone else will have to take that responsibility for you. A wise life is one in which we don’t shift the blame onto others but face challenges head-on; we don’t burden others with the need to hold our hands, but instead become a source of support for others ourselves.
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