EPISODE 102: YOU MEANT IT FOR EVIL, BUT GOD...

What does it look like to hold on to a promise you cannot yet see fulfilled? In this powerful conclusion to our journey through the life of Joseph, we sit with one of the most sobering realities in all of Genesis: four generations of patriarchs lived, suffered, hoped, and died without ever fully receiving what God had promised. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph -- all of them gone, and still no land flowing with milk and honey. Yet not one of them let go of the covenant. This episode draws us into that tension between promise and fulfillment, asking us a deeply personal question: can we trust God when our timeline does not match his? We explore how Joseph's final act of embalming and honoring his father mirrors our call to be faithful stewards of what God has placed in our hands, using every resource and position not for personal gain but for the blessing of others. We also sit with the image of the Jordan River as a threshold -- a crossing from the old life into the new -- and what it means for us today to die to what was in order to walk into what God is preparing. Egypt is not our home. Our current location is not our final identity. And if Joseph could hold on through the pit, the prison, and the palace, so can we.