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Excerpted from: How God Deals With Conscience (Part Four)The first aspect of their spiritual healing was that their relationship to God was transformed. Before this they had been running from Him while covering up their sin. But when He had made His presence felt through the return of their money on the first trip to Egypt, they acknowledged that He was at work.
Genesis 42:28 records that they asked, “What is this that God has done to us?” But it was in the form of a question. They still had not openly acknowledged and confessed their sin. In this later part of the story, they recognized God's hand again, only now it was not, “What has God done to us?”, but rather “God has uncovered our sin; God has won the victory.” It may be that this is the point in the story in which the brothers are actually called. Before this they were unconverted, but from this point on they were transformed individuals, or at least beginning to be.
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