Thursday, February 22: “God Intentions XXXIII”

Genesis 39: 2, 21: “The Lord was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian … But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in sight of the chief jailor.”

So, the Lord made Joseph successful, and favored, and prosperous. He was still a slave. If God is God, couldn’t he have made him successful, favored, prosperous, and free? Yes, and then Joseph would have never ascended to the place of Pharaoh’s right-hand man, and his family would have starved to death in Canaan, and the Christ would have needed another lineage. We get off base when we judge God’s works before He’s finished with them–and that statement can have as wide a realm of application as you care to give it ...