ORBUS
  • About
    • Projects >
      • Orbus Projects
    • Board
    • Partners
  • How you can help
    • Orbus Future Projects
  • Donate
  • Notice Board
  • Newsletters
    • Letter to Orbus Supporters from Craig Manners.
  • Contact
    • Craig Manners - Contact Details
  • Chichewa Language Guide
  • Malawi Links
  • Helpful Information on Malawi
  • Malaria Prevention Information
  • Courageous Quotes
  • Orbus Documents
  • Orbus Archives
    • Orbus Africa
    • Orbus Albums >
      • Photo Journal 2017 >
        • Secondary School Building
        • Ten Commandments Blitz
        • MAY 2017
        • JUNE 2017
        • JULY 2017
        • AUGUST 2017
        • SEPTEMBER 2017
        • OCTOBER 2017
        • NOVEMBER 2017
        • Secondary school buildings 2017
        • Orbus Mission Secondary School - Opening Ceremony
        • First Week of the Orbus Mission Secondary School 25th to 29th September 2017
        • Malawi Photography >
          • Malawi Photo Video
      • Building Program 2022/23
      • Videos of Orbus
      • Photo Journal February 2023
  • Reflections by Craig Manners
    • The Cure for Death by Craig Manners
    • No Excuses - Romans 1:20
    • What is Christianity all about?

Reflections
by Craig Manners

Lift Your Eyes, Calm Your Heart

8/6/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture


Lift Your Eyes, Calm Your Heart

"But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them." (Genesis 50:19-21)

Think about Joseph. The way his brothers had betrayed him and caused him so much pain, the way he was set up by Potiphar's wife and wrongly imprisoned. Yet these events were in God's purposes for Joseph and were part of His purposes for so many others, even for us in reading about them.

Joseph lost so much and suffered so much. Yet he forgave those who wronged him. How could he do that? He was only able to do this because he had a high view of God’s sovereignty. He eventually saw the big picture, that although his brothers and Potiphar's wife meant it for harm, God meant it for good. Joseph was used by God to provide food for most of the known world, including Joseph's own family and people during that severe famine. 

You and I know the reality of how difficult it is to forgive people. It is not in our fallen nature. We have a natural bias toward holding grudges and getting payback. Without God this bias runs rampant in individuals and in societies. Human history records what happens in periods where society has either forgotten God or openly wars against God.

Like Joseph we too need to have a high view of God’s sovereignty and providences. Trust that He is fully in control of every situation. Why should we rebel against that by holding grudges and not forgiving? Let God do His thing. He knows what He is doing.

For further reading to help in this: Psalm 37, Psalm 73 and Romans 8:28.
​
Photo and reflection by Craig Manners
​

Brief reflection and photo by Craig Manners
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Brief reflections on things that matter, along with a photo taken by Craig Manners in Africa.

    RSS Feed

Location

Contact Us 

    Sign up for our newsletter

Submit
Picture
​
​Copyright 2022 Orbus Ministries Australia Inc. 
(ABN 14 458 768 638) Australian registered charity. Public Benevolent Institution endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) covered by Item 1