Please read the passage before reading the comments.
Holiness is available to all peoples, even to those who are very imperfect. Jacob’s family was very dysfunctional. He had a favorite son, Joseph, the son of his favorite wife. He did not disguise his favoritism. He gave Joseph a special festive garment. Joseph, himself, used to brag about the special position he should have in the family. He let himself be the police department of the family, checking up on his brothers. The brothers eventually sold Joseph into slavery and passed him off as killed by wild beasts.
Joseph, however, remained alive and became the viceroy of Egypt. When his brothers came to Joseph for relief of the famine that threatened their lives, Joseph had a chance to get even. Instead, he only tested them to see how well they treated Benjamin, his full brother.
We pick up the story at this point. Benjamin was accused of stealing Joseph’s persona belongings. The older brothers stood united with Benjamin to protect him. This satisfied Joseph and he revealed himself as Joseph, their brother. Joseph invited them and their father, Jacob, to move to Egypt where they would enjoy Joseph’s protection.
The whole process seems to have corrected the dysfunctionality of the family. The father and his twelve sons could spend the rest of their lives working together in harmony.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Joseph’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather, had chosen this family, with all its irregularities, weaknesses, and humanness to be God’s chosen people and the ancestors of Jesus Christ, God’s own Son.
God uses our human weaknesses to accomplish God’s plan to save all peoples.