3 But Judah said to him, “The man warned us solemnly, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’ 4 If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you. 5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”

6 Israel asked, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother?”

7 They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’ he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

8 Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die. 9 I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life. 10 As it is, if we had not delayed, we could have gone and returned twice.” Genesis 43:3-10

Judah was finally able to cut through the drama and make sense with his father. He personally put himself at risk to bring back food for his family.

While the drama continues to unfold, we know how it will end. They didn’t. They had to make decisions based on incomplete information, much like we have to do every day. Judah understood the severity of the situation and what he had to do to remedy it. Fortunately he had nine other brothers who were on his side and would do what they could to have a happy ending for all. Actually he had Joseph on his side but nobody knew it, and he pulled significantly more weight in this situation than all his brothers combined.

Similarly we have an Advocate pulling for us as well. We don’t see Him but we know that Jesus is interceding on our behalf. Romans 8:34, 1 Timothy 2:5

At every step of our journey.