God IS with you, The Way I See it pt 2
Sep 18th, 2007 by jneely
This week we talked about if there has ever been anyone who had the right to say, “God has left me!” it was Joseph. He was favored by his dad (not his fault), had dreams that were given by God (not his fault), and told his brothers about those dreams (maybe he should have kept his mouth shut, but still). So because of this his brothers strip him, sell him into slavery, his boss gets wealthy because of HIS faithfulness, he’s thrown into prison for being faithful to God and not sleeping with Potiphar’s wife, he interprets some other dreams for the cupbearer and the baker and to wrap it up- he’s forgotten by the cupbearer!
If we were writing a “Way I see it” for Joseph we would have to say something like “The Way I see it…”
- God has forgotten me
- God has abandoned me
- God doesn’t care about me
But all we know about Joseph was God was with him!? Just read the story- Genesis 37-40. God is constantly with Joseph? It doesn’t sound like a story we would write, but it says that God was WITH Him.
Joseph is the ultimate example that really the way we see things doesn’t really matter, because God might be up to something behind the scenes that we can’t even imagine. A story much bigger than us, a story much grander than us, a story that in the midst of it we don’t understand but in the end we see it’s a God size story. So what would our lives look like if we really believed that God was with us? How would it change our circumstances to believe that in the midst of it all, God was there? How would this change, “the way I see it?”