Joseph’s disaster came in the form of a pit his brothers threw him into. Yours maybe came in the form of a diagnosis, a heartbreak, or a traumatic injury.
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Joseph was thrown into a hole and despised. And you? Thrown into an unemployment line and forgotten, into a divorce and betrayed, into a bad situation and abused?
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Life is often reduced to one quest: to get out of our pit and never get hurt again. Not simply done. Pits have no easy exit.
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Joseph’s story got worse before it got better. Abandonment led to enslavement, entrapment, and imprisonment. He was suck- er-punched, sold out, mistreated. People made promises only to break them, offered gifts only to take them back. If hurt is a swampland, then Joseph was sentenced to a life of hard labor in the Everglades.
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Yet he never gave up. Bitterness could never stake its claim. Anger could never metastasize into hatred. His heart never hardened; his resolve never vanished.
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He not only survived; he thrived. By the end of his life, Joseph was the second most powerful man of his generation. His life offers this lesson: in God’s hands, intended evil becomes ultimate good.

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Joseph would be the first to tell you, life in the pit stinks. Yet, for all its rottenness, doesn’t the pit do this much?—It forces you to look upward.
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Someone from up there must come down here and give you a hand. God did for Joseph, and at the right time, in the right way, He will do the same for you.  Max Lucado

February 13th

Did God Make A Mistake?

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