“²⁵So they said, “You have saved our lives; let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

– Genesis 47:25 (NKJV)

“So they said, “You have saved our lives ; (Selah. Oh How Great A Salvation! Let us pause and ponder upon so Great A Salvation, even unto us Dear Friend. I would encourage you also Beloved Reader to take this moment to “say “, to testify with thine own lips, “You have saved our lives ” – let Holy Thanksgiving unto Him Who Saves pour forth!) let us find favour in the sight of my lord , (notice the caution and humility evident in The True Child of God: poor in spirit and seeking to be filled, hungering and thirsting for righteousness at this, the inception of so glorious a journey of their now beginning to search out the deep things of God: legally now encouraged to do so boldly, and yet still ever so tentative and careful; awestruck that such A Holy God should take pity on such a small, unworthy, mortal human being, not having even begun to understand that this Salvation will cause him to become BIG, Worthy and Immortal beyond what we can even begin to imagine on this side of eternity; for in the words of Paul: “it has not yet been revealed what we shall be” [1 John 3:2]. Here the new convert is yet seeking to “find” favour, not yet fully comprehending the abundant favour now expressed unto him In Christ, namely, that the finished work on The Cross has destined him to become A True Child, not unlike the very Saviour, his Elder Brother, [” my lord “], before whom he now prostrates himself in these moments of deep gratitude at so Great A Mercy having been extended unto him. Also, having not yet even begun to taste The Grace that now rests upon him and that is able radically to transform him into the likeness of his King at the day of culmination: “when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” [1 John 3:2]) and we will be Pharaoh’s servants (once again it is important for the new convert to pause and consider for a considerable length of time his prior unworthiness, that he was saved mightily “whilst still a sinner” [Rom 5:8] & the great privilege of being but a humble servant before so Great A Master [Luke 15:19][“Pharaoh’s “], before slowly but surely being ushered into the boldness that comes from being A Son – “Beloved, now we are children of God” [1 John 3:2] – before A Loving Father).”