I can imagine Joseph lying on his cell floor in filth as a rat scurries across his hand waking him up from a restless night's sleep. Usually he does really good not thinking about his situation, but not this morning not at this particular moment. He wakes up and is nauseated by the stench in the jail and cries out to God: "Where's the good in all this, Lord?" "How are you gonna make the dreams come to pass that I have received from you." "Are you even listening to me--don't you care that I'm rotting away in this stinking place?" "Adonai! Where's the good?!!" He doesn't know that in a week he will be sitting across from Pharoah. Dressed in the finest Egyptian linens. Wearing the sweetest perfumes from the east, and eating the finest foods expertly prepared by Pharoah's chef. It's hard sometimes the things that we go through, but if God is allowing it we know it is for our best interest that we endure it! Don't give up and don't give in to the moment. The good is coming. It resides in the Master's plans for us. Just hang in there a little longer and do whatever good you can find to do in this moment. 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. |