Through it all, persevere.

The verses for today are strengthening.

Through this increasing strength, they also give us the ability to patiently persevere knowing that God is always with us.  We sometimes go through times when it seems that God has abandoned us and left us to our own devices.  It would certainly be understandable for Joseph to have felt this way during his hard times.  Joseph was sold into slavery and stayed in that situation for 13 years.  During that time he remained faithful to God and did not become bitter.  Because of this, God continued to bless Joseph in his hard situation.  Joseph may have thought that this was to have been his future, to live and die as a slave but we know that Joseph was being prepared, the path for him was being prepared as well as the people around him.  God had the whole situation well in hand.  One interesting thing to me about God’s plan for Joseph is that when God decided to put him on to his path for redemption and fulfillment, God did it by allowing an evil thing to happen to Joseph.  Joseph’s situation went to bad but stable and maybe tolerable to extremely bad.  He went from the frying pan on slow burn directly into the fire.  But we know that this was the best thing for him and that God was putting him exactly where he needed to be.

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