Since the early nineteenth century, archaeology in Egypt has produced tens of thousands of mummified bodies which date back thousands of years. Due to their abundance, many mummies were used experimentally in medical research and in other experiments. But there is one high-ranking Egyptian official whose mummified body has not been and never will be discovered in Egypt—Joseph.

Before Joseph died at age 110 in Egypt, he made his brothers promise to take his bones back to Canaan when God delivered them from slavery in Egypt. According to the Egyptian custom for when officials died, Joseph was embalmed and placed in a coffin (Genesis 50:24-26). But when the Exodus came, Moses took Joseph’s bones to Canaan where they were buried at Shechem (Exodus 13:18-19; Joshua 24:32). Joseph never lost sight of the promises God made to his forefathers to establish His people in the Promised Land of Canaan.

Regardless of the chaos in our present world, never lose sight of God’s promises and your eternal destination.

God, in his glory and his presence, forms the destiny of the Christian.
Sinclair Ferguson