What does it look like when God is writing a story so much bigger than any one of us can see? In Genesis 47, we step back from the familiar drama of Joseph and his family to witness something staggering: a famine so severe that it reshaped the entire known world. Every person in Egypt and Canaan, named or unnamed in Scripture, was caught up in something God had set in motion long before. This passage reminds us that the Bible is never just about one family or one people group. As Jesus himself declares in John 5:39, all of Scripture points to him, and yet we are invited into that story in a deeply personal way. We see ordinary people stripped of their money, their livestock, their land, arriving before Joseph with nothing left to offer but themselves. And in that moment of total surrender, something remarkable happens. Rather than turning them away, Joseph gives them seed and sends them back to work. God does not redeem us only to leave us idle. He calls us his workmanship, created for good works prepared in advance for us to walk in, as Paul writes in Ephesians 2:10. This is a message for anyone who has ever felt completely emptied out by life's hardships and wondered whether God could still use them. The answer, written across the pages of Genesis, is a resounding yes.