GOD WILL MAKE A WAY - AS THAT OF JOSEPH

Post date: Jan 27, 2020 1:10:24 AM

When God want to do certain things in the life of an individual, He allows certain things to happen to that individual. Allowing such things to happen does not mean He is testing that person, but want to use that person and that situation to show others and the world that He is God who alone can do all things, change all lives, change situations, use people mightily in good things, bless people in unimaginable ways, preserve lives, and establish His purpose. I want to tell you there is a purpose beyond the sufferings and pains of today if God is with you, in you, and you are in Him. There is a reason for God allowing those things which are beyond your understanding, and imaginations, and reasoning to happen to you, there is a reason that you will not know until you live to see the result of what was going on behind the scenes, live to experience the blessing that God had in His love prepared for you, and live to tell the testimony that will glorify His name. That was the life of Joseph, that was the life of Job, and that was the life of Noah.

Jacob had twelves sons and one girl, all of them were important before God and all of them had their different stories according to their individual and collective actions. The life of Joseph is interesting, his suffering and success were unimaginable. Joseph did not do anything wrong to deserve the conspiracy and the sufferings, but in all his ways, He trusted the Almighty God by keeping himself according to God's words, following God's ways and depending on God's ways and words. Joseph was a child well beloved by his father, then a boy with two dreams from God, then a man hated by his brothers because their father loved him, and his brothers conspired against him for his dreams, wanted to kill him in order to stop the dream but ended up selling him to slavery, but in all their ways, God was there making ways for Joseph to be what He wanted.

As a slave, Joseph was accused of improper behavior, imprisoned wrongly, transferred from one prison to another, then he became a favorite in the prison, a consultant and an interpreter of the prisoner's dreams, then he stood before Pharaoh, was give given an offer he couldn’t believe or resist, became the physical redeemer of Israel from starvation as God had intended. All through, God was there to direct his feet, direct his ways, and keep his heart. God was there to make a way for Joseph despite the conspiracy, the hatred, slavery, and the imprisonment, God was there to prevent him from being killed and the dream from being destroyed.

When all was done, Joseph was still alive, and God opened the doors for him to be fulfilled and the two dreams to be manifested in his life before his brothers. His brothers came to him after the death of their father and confessed to Joseph saying: “After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, what if Joseph carries a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him? So they sent word to Joseph, saying, your father commanded us before he died, saying, you are to say to Joseph, I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong. Now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Then his brothers went and fell down before him in confession, then they said, behold, we are your servants. But Joseph said to them, do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? Vengeance is His, not mine. As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present outcome, that many people would be kept alive as they are this day. So now, do not be afraid, I will provide for you and support you and your little ones. So he comforted them, giving them encouragement and hope and spoke with kindness to their hearts.” Genesis 50:14-21. Joseph recognized what his brothers did against him and also saw and recognized what God did for him and with him. I can assure you that your days of recognition and testimony to what God is doing and will do is coming. You will live to see it. For prayers, Click here