The Lord Was With Joseph
The Come, Follow Me manual says this as a summary of the passages about Joseph in Egypt this week: “We know that God blesses people who trust Him and keep His commandments. But sometimes it doesn’t seem that way. Sometimes the person who trusts God is abused and abandoned by family members…. Joseph, the son of Jacob, could have wondered that. At times, this faithful man prospered; at other times, it seemed that the more faithful he was, the more hardship he faced. But Joseph never left the Lord, and the Lord never left Joseph. That doesn’t mean the Lord prevented bad things from happening to Joseph, but through it all, ‘the Lord was with him’ (Genesis 39:3).” Joseph was nearly killed by his brothers and then sold as a slave to Egypt, he was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife which got him thrown in jail, and he was forgotten by the butler whom he helped. Though he was righteous and faithful, up to that point things never seemed to go his way. And yet, as this summary reminds us, “the ...