Joseph tried how his brethren felt towards Benjamin. Had they envied and hated the other son of Rachel as they had hated him, and if they had the same want of feeling towards their father Jacob as heretofore, they would now have shown it. When the cup was found upon Benjamin, they would have a pretext for leaving him to be a slave. But we cannot judge what men are now, by what they have been formerly; nor what they will do, by what they have done. The steward charged them with being ungrateful, rewarding evil for good; with folly, in taking away the cup of daily use, which would soon be missed, and diligent search made for it; for so it may be read, Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, as having a particular fondness for it, and for which he would search thoroughly? Or, By which, leaving it carelessly at your table, he would make trial whether you were honest men or not? They throw themselves upon Joseph's mercy, and acknowledge the righteousness of God, perhaps thinking of the injury they had formerly done to Joseph, for which they thought God was now reckoning with them. Even in afflictions wherein we believe ourselves wronged by men, we must own that God is righteous, and finds out our sin.
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This reference from Genesis 17:1 tells us that God required Abram, even in old age, to always maintain the Living God in the centre of his life & to be 'perfect' (or, blameless, upright, sincere). It isn't that Abram should be sinless, as none of us can ever be, but that 'perfection' is Abram's (& our) standing before God. And in that standing, we are to be upright & sincere in our lives.
Today, through Jesus' Sacrifice & our faith in Him, are counted as blameless in God's Eyes. Not that we have done anything to secure that position, but that when God looks at us, He sees us through the death & resurrection of His Son & counts us as blameless (justified): freed from guilt & punishment. If God looked only at man's sin, we all stand guilty before Him. But God gave us His Sacrifice so that we wouldn't bear His punishment for our sins.
Joseph tried how his brethren felt towards Benjamin. Had they envied and hated the other son of Rachel as they had hated him, and if they had the same want of feeling towards their father Jacob as heretofore, they would now have shown it. When the cup was found upon Benjamin, they would have a pretext for leaving him to be a slave. But we cannot judge what men are now, by what they have been formerly; nor what they will do, by what they have done. The steward charged them with being ungrateful, rewarding evil for good; with folly, in taking away the cup of daily use, which would soon be missed, and diligent search made for it; for so it may be read, Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, as having a particular fondness for it, and for which he would search thoroughly? Or, By which, leaving it carelessly at your table, he would make trial whether you were honest men or not? They throw themselves upon Joseph's mercy, and acknowledge the righteousness of God, perhaps thinking of the injury they had formerly done to Joseph, for which they thought God was now reckoning with them. Even in afflictions wherein we believe ourselves wronged by men, we must own that God is righteous, and finds out our sin.
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Today, through Jesus' Sacrifice & our faith in Him, are counted as blameless in God's Eyes. Not that we have done anything to secure that position, but that when God looks at us, He sees us through the death & resurrection of His Son & counts us as blameless (justified): freed from guilt & punishment. If God looked only at man's sin, we all stand guilty before Him. But God gave us His Sacrifice so that we wouldn't bear His punishment for our sins.
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