DON’T DELAY

“’Hurry, go up to my father, and tell him, “Here is what your son Yosef says: ‘God has made me lord of all Egypt! Come down to me, don’t delay!’”’”
Genesis 45:9

Now the brothers knew it was Yosef. Now they were told that the actions they had once done to hurt Yosef were used by Adonai to keep the family, nation, and promise of Adonai alive. And now Yosef was hugging and weeping with his brothers, requesting they hurry home and bring their father, his father, back with them. They would live in Goshen according to Yosef, and they would be given the good part of Egypt according to Pharaoh. In every aspect, the doomed fate of both Yosef and Isra’el was being redeemed.
We would do well to remember this in regards to ourselves. If nothing else, the account of Yosef in the Torah fills in the missing pieces of how the Jewish nation found its way to Egypt from Moshe to deliver them. But it is so much more. It is here we also see that what is intended for bad can really be Adonai working undercover for our good. It can also be read as a story of forgiveness, or of provision. Still whatever lesson you read in this story, perhaps the piece that should not be ignored is in Genesis 45:9.
Yosef expressed to his brothers that five more years of famine were still to come. They had no time to delay in moving their father and all their possessions to Egypt. Their survival depended on it. So it is with us. There will be times when Adonai will tell us to move, and we must heed him. Our procrastination, or delay, or putting it off till tomorrow can easily put us out of sync with what Adonai is doing. Therefore, I encourage you, when you hear His voice of urgency speaking to you to move, do not delay. Your future may depend on it just as the nation of Isra’el’s did.

Genesis 45:8-18