WHEN THE LORD REMEMBERS YOU (18)

Post date: Jul 25, 2019 3:47:50 AM

And Joseph, the Son of Jacob, an Israelite, and a Jew despite all the odds in his life; despite all the hatred and conspiracies against him by his own brothers in his fathers house; despite all their desires to stop him and frustrate his dreams from becoming real; despite being sold as a slave and being taken to an unknown place; despite all the sufferings and all the humiliations and false accusations; despite all the years in various prison, Joseph became the prime minister in a foreign country, a position no one thought will ever be possible for him because of his background and his age and where he was at that time. Whatever God wants to do with you, for you, and through you in this very life, He will definitely do all of them irrespective of your past, your present, your location, your frustrations in life, the past and present disappointments, your loneliness, shame, your age, your gender, and the people conspiring against you and working hard to stop you. It is good that we remember that no man can stop God, nothing can stop His plans and nothing will ever be able to stop you from being what He had said even when you do not understand them but remain faithful, submissive to His words, and follow His ways in our life.

joseph has a humble beginning. Joseph’s life and history began when he had two interesting dreams and happily told the two dreams to his father in the presence of all his siblings. It was that two dreams and the thought of their impacts on his life and the family that infuriated his brothers the more and made them begin conspiring to harm him, collectively hate him and even to kill him all in an attempt to stop Joseph, to stop the dreams and to stop the full manifestation of the dreams. Though his father and brothers had little knowledge and meaning of the dream, its fullness was beyond their understanding and knowledge, and Joseph did not know its fullness also. The full manifestation of the dream was wrapped in God’s secret future plan for Joseph and his destiny and kept only in the hands, knowledge, and power of the Almighty God to make them happen as He alone intends and plans.

Joseph never knew God’s bigger plan for his life, all that Joseph knew about himself besides being the loving son of Jacob and having many brothers and the multi-colored suits his father gave to him was that he had two dreams from God. He never knew how the dreams will work out for him, he never tried to make them work, and he never asked for further insight into the dream the rest of his life. He only lives his life fearing God and doing all he could to please Him alone even when such decisions hurt him and jeopardize his perceived chances in life. “Love, loyalty, truth, and faithfulness bring forgiveness of sin, atonement for guilt. By respecting and fearing the Lord you will avoid evil. When people live so that they please the Lord, their paths draw the Lord’s favor and even their enemies will make peace with them. It is better to be poor, have little and right and righteousness than to be wealthy with much gain and dishonest. People may make plans in their minds, human hearts plan their path, but the Lord decides what they will do and establishes their step. The words of a king are like a message from God so his decisions should be fair, he should not betray justice with his mouth.” Proverbs 16:6-10

Joseph’s decision not to hate those who hated him, not to return evil for evil, not to plan what he will do against them did not bring him any good from his brothers but that decision brought him great favor from the Lord and opens the door for God to begin fulfilling all His plans in Joseph’s dreams which he did not understand how they will come to pass for his life. Joseph did not know the magnitude of what was to happen to him and what God was doing while his brothers thought and believed selling Joseph into slavery had ended God’s plans for him and Josephs life of ever being anything better or useful. When the enemies think it is over with you; when they think and believe they have succeeded caging and subduing you; when they think you will never be relevant again, do not be disturbed, the God of Joseph is still alive. Prayer Request Click here