What the Enemy Meant for Evil

Joseph said this to the brothers who had betrayed him, sold him, thrown him away. Years of suffering, injustice, imprisonment — and, in the end, he could look at all of it and say: "you meant evil against me, but God turned it into good." Notice: he didn't say what they did was good. It was wickedness, and he names it as such. What he discovered is that other people's wickedness didn't get the last word — God did. The very plan meant to destroy him, God repurposed to save many lives, including the lives of those who had hurt him. Maybe you still can't see any good in what happened to you, and that's all right; Joseph only understood it years later. But hold on to hope: what they tried to use to break you, God has the power to turn inside out. Your story hasn't reached the chapter yet where it all makes sense. Trust the Author. He specializes in turning evil into purpose.