Try to put yourself in Joseph’s shoes. You are seventeen years old, favorite son in a family of twelve sons. Your father has chosen you to be the head of the family and given you a beautiful robe to symbolize this fact.
Suddenly you are stripped of your coat and betrayed by people who should have loved you. Separated from your father, you are sold as a slave and carried to a strange land. Imagine the humility of being examined and sold in a slave auction.
Genesis 39:2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
God is always with His people, to see them through their trials; to accomplish His plans in their lives. Joseph prospered because God blessed him.
The trials Joseph faced and the trials you and I face are never easy, but they do teach us to depend on God.
Ideas for this unprofitable blog are taken from The Sermon Notebook—Biblical resources for preachers and teacher of the word of God. They allow these sermons to be used as the Lord leads but not for profit without their permission
