Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

                                                                   Comfort En Route Home

And Joseph said to his brethren, "I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
                                                                                      ~ Genesis 50:24

  "Egypt was never the same to Isreal after Joseph was dead, nor can the world again be to some of us what it was when our beloved ones were alive.

  But see how the pain of that sad death was alleviated! They had a promise that the living God would visit them. A visit from Jehovah! What a consolation! Lord, visit us this day; though indeed we are not worthy that You should come under our roof.
  But more was promised: the Lord would bring them out. They would find in Egypt a cold welcome when Joseph was dead, but it was not to be so forever; they would come out of it by a divine deliverance and march to the land of promise. We shall not weep here forever. We shall be called home to the Glory Land to join our dear ones." (By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)