And God Blessed Joseph in Egypt - 5

* Luís Alberto Alves

José suffered the betrayal of part of the brothers, who threw him in a hole, so that he died there. The evil did not come from someone unknown, but from their own family members. How often we are not mistreated by those who are close to us all the time!

The pain, in this type of betrayal, is profound. Why no one expects the badness to come from someone close to us. How many parents do not end up being beaten by their children and some even lose their lives in their hands? Is there anything sadder than this type of situation?

What about the women who die murdered by men who once, in the not-too-distant past, chose their husbands and vowed eternal love. This is sentimental Egypt. Others suffer various types of aggressions, deeply damaging the soul.

Joseph, like Jesus Christ, felt the pain of betrayal on his skin. The first with his brothers and then with Potiphar's wife, who without satisfying sexual desires with him, invented a false harassment and threw him in prison, from where he would not leave alive. He would die in prison, far from his family.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.