Both Are True 均为真实！
Dexu Xia
It was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. Genesis 45:5
After three decades, Feng Lulu was reunited with her birth family. As a toddler, she was kidnapped while playing outside her house, but through the help of All-China Women’s Federation, she was finally located. Because she was so young when she was abducted, Feng Lulu doesn’t remember it. She grew up believing she’d been sold because her parents couldn’t afford to keep her, so learning the truth surfaced many questions and emotions.
When Joseph was reunited with his brothers, it’s likely he experienced some complex emotions. He’d been sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt as a young man. Despite a series of painful twists and turns, God propelled Joseph to a position of authority. When his brothers came to Egypt to buy food during a famine, they—unwittingly—sought it from him.
Joseph acknowledged that God redeemed their wrongdoing, saying He used it to “save [their] lives by a great deliverance” (Genesis 45:7). Yet Joseph didn’t redefine their hurtful actions toward him—he described them accurately as “selling [him]” (v. 5).
We sometimes try to put an overly positive spin on difficult situations, focusing on the good God brings from them without acknowledging the emotional struggle. Let’s take care not to redefine a wrong as being good simply because God redeemed it: we can look for Him to bring good from it while still recognizing the pain wrongdoing causes. Both are true.
When have you experienced hardship as a result of another’s wrongdoing? How have you seen God bring good from it?
Father God, thank You for lovingly tending to my wounds.
上帝差我在你们以先来，为要保全生命。—创世记45章5节
经过了三十年，冯露露终于和她的亲生家人重聚。约在两、三岁时，她在自家屋外玩耍遭人掳走，后来在中华全国妇女联合会的协助下被寻获。因她被诱拐时年纪还小，所以对整起事件毫无印象。露露自小就以为父母是因无力扶养她而将她卖掉，得知真相后，她心中浮现许多疑问，百感交集。
当约瑟与他的哥哥们重逢时，应该也有一些复杂的情绪。他在少年时被哥哥们卖了，被人带到埃及为奴。尽管后来经历一连串痛苦的波折，但上帝使他高升为埃及的宰相。当他的哥哥们因饥荒到埃及买粮的时候，在他们没有察觉到的情况下，向约瑟求购粮食。
约瑟深知上帝藉着哥哥们所犯的恶成就了美事，并表明这是上帝“要大施拯救，保全[他们]的生命”（创世记45章7节）。但约瑟并没有重新定义哥哥们当年伤害他的恶行，而是明确指出他们把他“卖到这里”（5节）。
有时候，我们会将困境过度合理化，或给予过度乐观的说法，要求自己只专注于上帝的美意，而不承认自己情感上的挣扎。我们应当留意，不要因上帝已赦免某种罪行，就将罪行重新定义为是件好事。我们可以仰望上帝在其中成就祂美好的旨意，但也可以坦然承认自己因他人的错误而受到伤害。两者都是真实的！
你何时曾因别人的过错而受到伤害？
你看到上帝如何在其中成就祂的美意？
天父上帝，谢谢祢慈爱地抚平我的创伤。