Joseph stood in his garden as dusk fell. Perhaps his gaze took in date palms and other fruit trees, pools with water plants, and just beyond the wall, a glimpse of Pharaoh's palace. Imagine that stray snatches of sound drifted to Joseph from his own house, his son Manasseh was making his baby brother, Ephraim, giggle. Joseph could picture the scene inside. his wife laughing gently at the boy' antics. He smiled. He knew that he was a blessed man.
Joseph had given his first born the name Manasseh because it referred to forgetfulness. (Genesis 41:51) God's blessings in recent years had surely soothed the pains of Joseph's memories of his home, his brothers, his father. His older brother hated him, and then sold him as a slave to traveling merchants. Since then, his life had taken one tumultuous turn after another . For about a dozen years, he had endured slavery and then imprisonment-for a time in iron fetters. But now he was-the second ruler to Pharaoh in the mighty nation of Egypt!
Next time: "Am I in the Place of God?" - Conclusion
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