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God Will Visit You
God Will Visit You
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In Genesis 50:24, Joseph tells his brethren that he is about to die and that “…God will surely visit you” (KJV – other versions have “take care of you”).
How would it be if God were to visit you? Would you have to make any changes in your dress, the books you read or the movies you watch? Would you have to speak differently to each other? Would your house reflect love and devotion or hatred and bitterness?
God is not literally going to come bodily to our houses, but He is there spiritually. He knows what we are inside our house when others may not know. He will hold each of us accountable for the way we act and what we do in our family relationships.
This word “visit” means “to exercise oversight over a subordinate either in the form of inspection or acting to change the circumstances of a subordinate whether for better or worse” (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance #6485). When Joseph spoke those words, his people were enjoying the blessings of Egypt. But there was coming a time when they would be enslaved. At that time, God was going to visit them and deliver them to the promised land.
We need to remember that God exercises oversight of us and wants to take care of us. Just as God visited the Jews when they had needs, so God will visit us when we have a need. But we must stay in an obedient relationship with him. Why do we think that we can live as we like all of our life and then, all of a sudden when we need help, all we have to do is holler and God will deliver us? God does want to visit us – that is to assist us. But he is only going to assist those who are his faithful servants.
Let each of us live so that God can visit us when we need the help.
