The curious phrase: “Land O Goshen!” is a way folks in the southern US expressed amazement or angst. As we look at today’s world, the biblical land of Goshen gives us good reason for amazement and frustration.

(Photo: Land of Goshen in Eastern Nile Delta. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)

As Christians in a fallen world, it’s easy to feel like the wheels are coming off of God’s plan. After all:

• Morality is optional.
• Truth is relative.
• Disease runs rampant.
• Power is abused.

And (here’s the rub) God stands by and allows it all.

But the land of Goshen offers us hope.