Daily Devotionals

The Bent-Knee Time

Devotional: December 9th

RARE DIPLOMACY

Genesis 43:26-34

Never was diplomacy—love’s wooing, win­ning diplomacy—sent on a harder mission than when Joseph set out to do—what? Be willing to forgive his brothers’ terrible con­duct toward himself? No, no; something far different: to make them really broken-hearted to think they should have treated him so. This explains all his rarely keen, subtly shrewd —yet always loving and honest—handling of them, from first to last. This sets the stand­ard for real, full forgiveness.