Our Christian life is full of up and downs - Joseph's story - Genesis 37

 Hello and hello my fellow Christians.  God is good all the time, all the time God is good.

  Often we think why is God letting this happen to me?  I am trying to do what God wants me to and some bad things happen.  Why?

   An answer we really don't wish to hear is that God is in control and knows what is going on.  But why would something like this happen to me?  Let me tell you a story about a man named Joseph.

   Joseph was born in the old age of his father, Jacob.  Now Joseph had brothers, these were from other wives of his father, so they were his half brothers.  Joseph was young (and probably said things when he should have kept quiet) and at 17 he was tending the sheep with his brothers.

  His father, Israel (Jacob) loved Jacob more than the others and made him a coat of many colors.  The brothers all knew this and hated Joseph. Plus, when they were bringing in sheaves in the field Joseph told them his dream.  The dream was that they other sheaves (his brothers) would one day bow down to him.  This really infuriated the brothers. Then another dream which he shared with his father about them all bowing down to him.  His father rebuked him but remembered what he said.

  To cut to the chase, Joseph was thrown in a pit, sold as a slave, thrown into prison, brought out of prison and became the right hand of the Pharoah.  Then his brothers did come to Egypt during the famine.  But, the thing for Joseph was his life was up, father's favorite, cast into a pit, sold into slavery, head of Potiphar's household, cast into prison, interpret a dream for Pharoah, and then became Pharoah's right hand.

   The thing he knew most was that God was always there with him and he continued in the faith through thick and thin.  A great lesson for us all.  We need to remember, even if we are cast in the pit, in prison, lost all we have, God has something better for us.  You can begin reading Joseph's story in Genesis 37. I have done a great job of babbling and hope you followed my train of thought. Thanks for reading. Love you all.

In Christ's Love and Grace

Johnny