In Genesis 42:36, Israel (formerly Jacob) proclaims, “Everything is against me!”
We know this to be not true, but the statment was an honest expression of how Jacob felt at the time.
Jesus said in Matthew 28:20 that he is with us always. Paul tells us in Romans 8:31, “If God is for us, who is against us?” From this I conclude that even when it seems as though everything is aligned to thwart me in my endeavors, it is not the case that “everything is against me.”
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