God Meant it for Good!

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When the time did come for God to fulfill Joseph’s dreams, Joseph himself had virtually no interest at all in it. Jesus said, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it” (Luke 9:24) God wants to teach us a different set of values so that the kind of thing we start out wanting becomes secondary. God has something in mind for us far greater than the interest we began with.



Joseph’s day of exaltation had arrived. And yet, through it all, a very real humiliation had to take place. He experienced an unexpected trauma, for in a real sense he had to kiss his own life good-bye. We know about the humiliation Joseph experienced thirteen years before – sold by his brothers into slavery, then taken to Egypt. We know how he was falsely accused and cast into prison, but painful as it was, Joseph was still his own man.

Then came a different situation – Joseph had triumph and was given exaltation, but the kind he really never asked for. He did not appear to be all that interested in what was about to happen. He watched as Pharaoh took the ring off his finger and put in on Joseph’s finger. Joseph never asked for that. All he wanted was to go home. He longed to go back to Canaan, to see his father and to have his dreams fulfilled.
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