When you stop and think about it, you realize even the faithful hero Joseph uses deception. He deceives his brothers about who he is. He even plants evidence on them so that he can threaten them and take one of them into custody.
Sure they deserve it after selling their brother into slavery and lying about his fate. I thought forgiveness was all about not getting what you deserve.
Simeon is left in custody. As he waited for his brothers to return for him and waited, waited, waited and waited, I'm sure he wondered if they would ever return for him. I'm sure he thought about his brother Joseph thinking the same thing when he was sold to the Ishmaelites..."surely my brothers will come to my rescue."
Simeon waits alone. And so does Joseph. He's forced to wait, too. Since he didn't reveal who he was in the first meeting with his brothers. He has to wait for their return. He suffers, too, wondering if he would ever see his father alive again. If only he hadn't deceived them at their first meeting. I wonder what the wait for Joseph was like? Did it cross his mind that they might leave Simeon like they left him? I wonder.
Oh, and I was happy to see my favorite nut -- pistachio nuts -- are mentioned here.
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