“And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.” (Genesis 45:7 KJV)
How long did it take Joseph to realize that? What a transformational work God did to make that the actual belief that Joseph had such that was his exact and only response to his brothers about an issue that could have been eating away at him for a really long time. How long will something eat away at us before we can see what the Lord was trying to do all along?