IMITATE THEIR FAITH/JOSEPH -"Do Not Interpretations Belong to God?"

 JOSEPH walked along the dark corridor dripping with sweat from his toil in the stiffling heat. Outside, the Egyptian sun was baking the prison like a kiln. It seemed at times as if he knew every brick in the place, ever crack in every wall.  This was his whole world now.  True, he was highly regarded here.  Nonetheless he was a prisoner.

How often he must have cast his thoughts back to his life in the high rocky hils in Hebron, where he had tended his father's flocks!  He was abou 17 years old when his father, Jacob, sent him on an errand that took him dozens of miles (km) from home.  Such freedom seemed almost unimaginable  now.  Joseph's zealous brothers had turned on him with murderous hatred and then sole him as a slave. He was taken down to Egypt, where he first served in the household of the Egyptian Potiphar.  Joseph held his master's trust and false accusation of rape from Potiphar's  wife landed him her in the prison. - GENESIS chapters 37, 39. 

Have you ever felt like Joseph did?  Sometimes life turns out to be a far cry from our  youthful hopes. Indeed, painful situations can seem to drag on endlessly, and it can be hard to see a way to endure. Let  us see what we can learn from the faith of Joseph.

Next  time: IMITATE THEIR FAITH/JOSEPH - "Do Not Intrerpretations Belong to God?"  - "JEHOVAH CONTINUED WITH JOSEPH

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