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"There is corn in Egypt."--Genesis 42:2 

(C.H. Spurgeon)

Famine pinched all the nations, and it seemed inevitable that  
Jacob and his family should suffer great want; but the God of 
providence, who never forgets the objects of electing love, had 
stored a granary for His people by giving the Egyptians warning of 
t=he scarcity, and leading them to treasure up the grain of the years 
of plenty. Little did Jacob expect deliverance from Egypt, but there 
was the corn in store for him. Believer, though all things are 
apparently against thee, rest assured that God has made a reservation 
on thy behalf; in the roll of thy griefs there is a saving clause. 
Somehow He will deliver thee, and somewhere He will provide for thee. 
The quarter from which thy rescue shall arise may be a very 
unexpected one, but help will assuredly come in thine extremity, and 
thou shalt magnify the name of the Lord. If men do not feed thee, 
ravens shall; and if earth yield not wheat, heaven shall drop with 
manna. Therefore be of good courage, and rest quietly in the Lord. 
God can make the sun rise in the west if He pleases, and make the 
source of distress the channel of delight. The corn in Egypt was all 
in the hands of the beloved Joseph; he opened or closed the granaries 
at will. And so the riches of providence are all in the absolute 
power of our Lord Jesus, who will dispense them liberally to His 
people. Joseph was abundantly ready to succour his own family; and 
Jesus is unceasing in His faithful care for His brethren. Our 
business is to go after the help which is provided for us: we must 
not sit still in despondency, but bestir ourselves. Prayer will bear 
us soon into the presence of our royal Brother: once before His 
throne we have only to ask and have: His stores are not exhausted; 
there is corn still: His heart is not hard, He will give the corn to 
us. Lord, forgive our unbelief, and this evening constrain us to draw 
largely from Thy fulness and receive grace for grace.