What happened to Joseph was unfair. It wasn’t his fault that he was born long after his half-brothers and that Jacob, their father favored him. Still, his brothers despised him. When he was seventeen years old, they had envied him so much that they sold him as a slave, letting their father think his Joseph had been torn to pieces by a wild animal.
Joseph’s unfair life events catapulted
him into another country, yet Scripture doesn’t record he ever complained or
blamed God. Even when Potiphar’s wife falsely accused him and was imprisoned
for two years, he stayed faithful to God. Then God intervened; Joseph
interpreted Pharaoh’s disturbing dream, and the king made him second in command
over his kingdom. When his brothers came to Egypt for food, he received them with
mercy and forgiveness and sent for his father and family to care for them.
Joseph was faithful in God’s divine appointment, saving multitudes
from a severe famine. God turned what his brothers meant for evil to something good:
“. . . ye thought evil against me,
but God meant it unto good. . .” (Genesis 50:20). Bad things happen to good
people. Evils will corrupt this world until God brings heaven down and establishes
His eternal reign here on Earth. Until then, live through your life’s dry
seasons as Joseph: faithful, with great integrity and high morals, trusting that God works all things together for good for those who love and obey Him (Romans 8:28).
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