A Feast of Reckoning

Joseph's dramatic meal with his brothers illustrates the complex currents flowing around all of our tables. In different relationships, we find ourselves in the Guarded role like Joseph, the Guilty role like his older brothers, or the Graced role like Benjamin. Only the sovereign hand of God can steer these stories toward redemption, and that's exactly what God does. Jesus is the true and better Joseph, the Bible's only hero, whose death on the cross makes us graced, and whose Holy Spirit makes us agents of grace to others.