There Is Corn In Egypt
- by Charles Sprugeon
"There is corn in Egypt."-- Genesis 42:2
Famine pinched all the nations, and it seemed inevitable that Jacob and his family
should suffer great want; but the God of providence, who never forgets the objects
of electing love, had stored a granary for His people by giving the Egyptians warning
of the scarcity, and leading them to treasure up the grain of the years of plenty.
Little did Jacob expect deliverance from Egypt, but there was the corn in store
for him.
Believer, though all things are apparently against you, rest assured that God has
made a reservation on your behalf; in the roll of your griefs there is a saving
clause. Somehow He will deliver you, and omewhere He will provide for you.
The quarter from which your rescue shall arise may be a very unexpected one, but
help will assuredly come in your extremity, and you shall magnify the name of the
Lord.
If men do not feed you, ravens shall; and if earth yield not wheat, heaven shall
drop with manna. Therefore be of good courage, and rest quietly in the Lord. God
can make the sun rise in the west if He pleases, and make the source of distress
the channel of delight. The corn in Egypt was all in the hands of the beloved Joseph;
he opened or closed the granaries at will.
And so the riches of providence are all in the absolute power of our Lord Jesus,
who will dispense them liberally to His people. Joseph was abundantly ready to relieve
his own family; and Jesus is unceasing in His faithful care for His brethren. Our
business is to go after the help which is provided for us: we must not sit still
in despondency.
Prayer will bear us soon into the presence of our Jesus, our royal Brother: once
before His throne we have only to ask and have. His stores are not exhausted; there
is corn still: His heart is not hard, He will give the corn to us