When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons: why do you just keep looking at each other? The famine that reaches Canaan brings the brothers to the critical juncture — go to Egypt or starve. Jacob's rebuke — why just look at each other — is the rebuke of a leader whose family is paralyzed by the same passivity that allowed the sale of Joseph. The application: the paralysis that stares at a problem without moving toward the available solution is the passivity that wastes the provision God has made.

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