QT 12 Apr 18, Gen 37:15-17, God will bring good out of evil, but it may take years to see the good

Wk	Date	Passage	Key Verses(s) [Optional]	Basic Thing(s) Taught	Personal Insight(s) & Application(s)	Prayer Response
22	4/12	Gen 37:1-24	Genesis 37:15–17 (ESV) — 15 And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?” 16 “I am seeking my brothers,” he said. “Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock.” 17 And the man said, “They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.	Joseph met a man, unnamed, as he wandered in the fields. The man coincidentally had heard them say where they were going. Without that information, Joseph might never had been sold into slavery. God could have intervened, but he didn't.	The brothers acted immorally toward Joseph. They committed a sin by selling him, and then lying to his father. Usually when a sin is needed to cover up the act, that is a strong signal that the act was wrong. God allowed all of this to happen. God knew the final outcome. God knew how to bring good out of this evil thing (Rom 1:28), All the time, God is working good, even though the pain would last for years.	Father, help me to listen to you. Help me to see you working in my own life. I do not want to justify sin. I want to do the right thing.