So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: ‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’” Genesis 50:16-17
After their father died, the brothers sent this message to Joseph. Then after sending the message, they came in person and offered themselves as Joseph’s servants.
“Joseph wept when they spoke to him” (50:17). Why did he weep? He wept because they did not believe that he really loved them. If you really love someone, and they don’t believe that you love them, it will bring you great sadness.
Think about this in relation to God the Father. God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that a person like you who believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. This is who God is and this is what God has done for you in Christ Jesus.
Think of the grief in the heart of God when you still find it so hard to believe that He loves you.
In his book Communion with God John Owen says, “The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.” This is a wound in the heart of God.
After all that God has done for you, you still do not believe that He loves you?
