God is not a person that tries to use his relationship with you to deal with anybody on your behalf.
Nobody is about to be small because they maltreated you. If in the question of God for you, that maltreatment was needed for you to have sense, they have worked for God. They have worked for God and have done their part. When God rates their work, it's a good work.
An average Christian seems to be burning because he or she thinks that it is me plus God against the world. No, it doesn't work like that. God loves everyone, even those who are not working in his plan.
They sold Joseph to slavery and they even wanted to kill him. It was Reuben who begged and said "Let's sell him". They sold him.
If you were Joseph, what would you be thinking? When you became a prime minister? That it was because my destiny was bigger than theirs. And the reason why Joseph became a prime minister was to rescue the rest. There is a young man amongst them whose name is Judah that Jesus will be referenced to.
So what Joseph suffered for was not even about Joseph. Can you follow God?
And then you look at it that, okay, we look forward to a city whose builder and maker is God. Then you just get to a point in knowing God that all that I've gone through was never apart of me.
When you say God used me, now you understand.
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