The way of Amnesia
Timrufus
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.” -Genesis 41:51
I am sure no one really likes to remember the wrong others did to him or her. However, what if the wrong done to you were of members of your own household or peoples whom you once held in high regards or peoples whom you once loved, be it of Phileo or of agape; that feeling of anger and injustice would be very much intensified.
Joseph ought to hate his brothers deeply but he chose to forget his father’s household. What caused him to make such a prayer? Firstly, it wasn’t any other households but his own father’s household. Being made the second-in-command of Pharaoh’s Kingdom, Joseph had absolute authority in the world to send an army of soldiers to Canaan and bring back all of his nemesis to ruin but he didn’t and all because it was his father’s household. - He chose the way of amnesia.
There was a time when I had some grievances with members of the same Household of God. I have not hated anyone in my life but The Lord showed me that I would die if I persist in my way and I got all the more angrier because I thought it not fair. Each time I saw how these religiously religion leaders could have trampled on other just because it is in their power to do so, make me wonder, is God really in control?
But once I realize the focus point was wrong, I asked the Lord for a new heart and a new spirit. The LORD however made me forgot everything in one day. At that point of time, my mind was in a total blank. I cannot recalled anything that has happened. There were some doubts of course, but I thought it was a dream.
However, over the weeks, as I continued to listen intensively into what these peoples had been saying furthermore, I realize that it was not a dream after all. (Psalm 73:20) Each time I prayed to the Lord, I loved them from the bottom of my heart but each time they repeat the same matter again and again, it just make me more and more angrier. That injustice I carried until one day a colleague sent me a short messaging. The text read, “Jesus came not to a throne but a manger; not as a king but as a servant; chose not a kingdom but a cross; gave not just a little but everything!”
Jesus – the man who carried all our infirmities, he bled and died for us on the cross, is not a man but the Son of God! He was sinless yet he died for selfish men like you and I. He was led like a sheep to be slaughtered and yet he shouted no injustice. May God made us like Joseph today, instead of remembering how others had played sin on us, may God make us forget all our troubles and even the names and faces of our nemesis!
Verse of the day: Proverbs 17:9
Yes LORD, let the morning brought forth word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. For your name’s sake, LORD, preserve my life. In your righteousness, bring me out of trouble. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust myself. May the place where you are leading, be a place flowing with honey and milk. Your Word to me O LORD, are sweeter, more sweeter than honey from the honeycomb. Precious, more precious than much pure gold and Your love O Lord, is better, more better than life itself. In Jesus mighty Name. Amen!
