Trial Proved to be a Blessing: Jacob and Joseph

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When God allowed Joseph to be removed from his father Jacob, the latter said, "All these things are against me." But it turned out quite otherwise in the end; for at the time of famine, he and his children, and his children's children, and his flocks and his herds, and all that he had, were brought near to Joseph, had a dwelling place in the land of Goshen, and were tenderly nourished all the years of famine by Joseph (Gen. 45:10, 1110And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 11And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. (Genesis 45:10‑11)). This proved that Jacob's greatest trial was in the end his greatest blessing. How often we have been made to prove that the clouds we so dreaded have been big with richest blessings. (Rom. 8:2828And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28).)