#61 | God empowers Joseph to Forget the Past and Live in the Present

OneLife Nashville: Rare but vital conversations about Jesus · Oct 27, 2022 · 22m

In this episode, we look at Joseph's naming of his two sons - Manasseh and Ephraim - and how that symbolizes Joseph's struggle to "forget" all his hardship from the past and move forward to be "productive" in the present. This had to be a difficult thing for Joseph to do, but the encouraging thing is that, despite his traumatic experiences of rejection, betrayal, and oppression, God helped Joseph to not get stuck in those wounds, but to move through, and past those experiences to a place where he was able to be fruitful in his life. And this undoubtedly required Joseph to reach a point where…