Can I overcome the disadvantages of my birth and the dysfunction of my family of origin? - Overcoming - TouchPoints

Judges 11:1-2Now Jephthah of Gilead was a great warrior. He was the son of Gilead, but his mother was a prostitute. Gilead’s wife also had several sons, and when these half brothers grew up, they chased Jephthah off the land. “You will not get any of our father’s inheritance,” they said, “for you are the son of a prostitute.”

Despite being scorned and rejected because of his illegitimate birth, Jephthah became a military hero and judge of all Israel.

2 Kings 11:1-3When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of the royal family. But Ahaziah’s sister Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king’s children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom, and they hid him from Athaliah, so the child was not murdered. Joash remained hidden in the Temple of the Lord for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.

Joash was raised in hiding after the rest of his family was murdered, yet he became one of the wisest and most godly kings of Judah.

Genesis 41:41Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the entire land of Egypt.”

Joseph’s brothers hated him so much that they sold him as a slave. Yet Joseph trusted God and maintained his own integrity, and he became a wise and powerful ruler.