Sin Is Filthy, So We Run to Jesus

2025-07-22

When Joseph’s brothers met Joseph, what did their brother tell them? “Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life” (Genesis 45:5). And again, “And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance” (Genesis 45:7).

And what a great deliverance. They were left to die in the famine, but the one they slew became their savior. And that savior knew their impotence, sending wagons to carry them from their demise to the prosperity of the prince of Egypt.

We go where the deliverance is. Did the sons of Jacob trust in their own dwindling resources? No, they saw their brother who had saved them from the famine and told their father of his splendor.

Did the friends of the sick of the palsy, or Jairus, or the woman with the flow of blood, or the two blind men sit around and hope for their situations to go away? But they rather went to the Savior who could heal them of all their infirmities. So our sin is far worse than these. I go to the only one who can save me and heal me from my infirmity. I go to the Son of God, Jesus the Lord.