Joseph came from a family line of wealthy livestock herders all
the way back to his great-great grandfather, Abraham. How was a sheep herder going
to learn the administration skills needed to be second in command to the nation
of Egypt? How was he going to go from the pasture to the palace?
Joseph was favored, handpicked by God for something big
and when his jealous brothers threw him into that pit they didn’t realize they
were catapulting Joseph into the very thing they hated him for. On the far end
of their hatred and jealousy was Joseph’s destiny - one they would eventually bow down to just as Joseph's dream had revealed.
As a slave in Potiphar’s house and the General Manager of a
prison he learned the administration skills he was going to need to bring an
entire nation through one of the worst famines ever recorded in the known world
at that time. He learned protocol for management: how to handle business with all of its accounting and transactions. He learned how to deal with difficult
people, criticism, unfair accusation and temptation. He also learned about forgiveness, mercy, humility,
patience and endurance. Joseph received a crash course in Preparation For Royalty
101. School was in session and the curriculum was difficult!
Are you in a place you find uncomfortable, don’t understand
or even despise right now? Would you think about it in a different way today?
Maybe this time and place is preparation for the greater thing God has planned up
ahead. Don’t waste it! Look around, pay attention, apply yourself to wisdom, learn
and grow there and in due time you will be promoted from what you don’t see into
the clarity of your task and fulfilling purpose.
God is working in every difficult situation of your life for
your good, so work with Him, not against Him, and be encouraged!
(Read the entire amazing story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50).
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