The Lord Was With Joseph
Joseph
had been taken down to
The Lord was with
Joseph. He gave him great success. Joseph lived in Potiphar's
house.
Joseph's master saw
that the Lord was with him. He saw that the Lord gave Joseph success in
everything he did. So Potiphar was pleased with
Joseph. He made him his attendant. He put Joseph in charge of his house. He
told Joseph to take good care of everything he owned.
From that time on,
the Lord blessed Potiphar's family and servants
because of Joseph. He blessed everything Potiphar had
in his house and field.
So Potiphar told Joseph to take good care of everything he
owned. With Joseph in charge, he didn't have to worry about anything except the
food he ate.
Joseph was strong and
handsome. After a while, his master's wife noticed Joseph. She said to him,
"Make love to me!"
But he said no.
"My master has put me in charge," he told her. "Now he doesn't
have to worry about anything in the house. He trusts me to take care of
everything he owns.
"No one in this
house is in a higher position than I am. My master hasn't held anything back
from me, except you. You are his wife. So how could I do an evil thing like
that? How could I sin against God?"
She spoke to Joseph
day after day. But he told her he wouldn't make love to her. He didn't even
want to be with her.
Genesis
39:1-10
When our dreams are
shattered, how do we react? After Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, was sold as
a slave to his brothers, he could have given in to self-pity, but he did not.
Instead, Joseph remained true to the Lord.
Do we love God more
than our own dreams? Although Joseph must have grieved the loss of his past and
what his life could have been, the Lord led him to a calling he had never
imagined. Today, the Lord longs to lead us. Are we willing to be redirected by
Him?
A man’s
heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.
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