The Things You Wouldn’t Choose God Will Use.
Gen. 50:20 / Rom. 8:28
Joseph’s story is complicated but the timing of God is evident. Joseph was 17 years old. He was his daddy’s favorite. God gave him dreams and his dad gave him a coat. The dreams and coat made his brothers angry. Angry to the point they stripped him of his coat and through him in a pit but had second thoughts and took him out of the pit and sold him to some foreigners as the passed by, but he was bought by a wealthy man named Potiphar who took him to Egypt where Potiphar’s wife lied against him so Potiphar had him thrown in prison where he interpreted a butler and baker’s dream and later was remembered by one of them causing him to find favor with the Pharaoh by interpreting his dream. Pharaoh gave him all authority and when a famine came Joseph was able to bless his family, and others, even the brothers who through him in the pit. The pit changed Joseph, but it didn’t change his brothers. Not everyone will get it but the key is that you do.
Here is what these scenarios of Joseph’s life represents:
1. The Pit represents what others do to you that you have no control over.
*There will be things that will happen to you that you will not have control over. People will do things,and say things, that you can’t be responsible for. The greater issue is not what happens to you, but how you respond to What has happened to you. Joseph couldn’t get out if the pit on his own, and you can’t either. You need the help, the favor, and the grace of God to help you. He will be reaching out, as you reach up.
2. Potiphar’s House represents someone else’s word against your word.
*Potiphar’s wife was “hot to trot”. She was “miss hotty totty”. She wanted what she wanted when she wanted and when she didn’t get it, she lied. There will always be those times in life when it is your word against someone else’s. You won’t always be able to prove you are right. The important thing is that you know and God knows and sometimes that is all that matters. If you do the right thing God will honor you and that is what truly matters.
3. The Prison represents waiting and feeling overlooked and forgotten about.
*if you have lived a little there have been times that you have been or felt overlooked. God is a God of “timing” and “order”. He is a God that moves in seasons. If you are waiting it feel you are being overlooked you must remember there is a reason for this season. While you are waiting, God is working. Trust Him!
4. The Palace represents God’s favor, grace and blessing that is more about others.
*All of us desire God’s blessing and favor on us. Most of the time we make it “all about us” when in fact it is all about god and others. Remember, you are blessed to be a blessing.
God used every process of Joseph’s journey to get him at the right place at the right time so that God could use him to bless those that meant him harm. Joseph wouldn’t have chosen any of the scenarios that he had to go through but it was ultimately the pit that promoted him to the palace. If Joseph’s brothers would not have thrown him in the pit Joseph might have been walking a round town in a multi-colored coat interpreting people’s dreams while he and his family starved to death. Joseph’s brothers didn’t change both Joseph did. Not everyone will get it the most important thing is that you do.
