Joseph’s brothers were jealous and hateful. They threw Joseph into a pit and planned to let him die of starvation or animal attack (Genesis 37:23-32).
While he was pleading from the pit, they sat down and ate, and "logically" determined it was better to sell Joseph as a slave than to leave him to die (Genesis 42:21)!
So they watched as their little brother's neck was put in an iron and his feet were put in shackles, and they went home and told their father lies (Psalm 105:17-19).
Joseph didn't see his family again for 22 years, and 13 of those years he spent enslaved or in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
God used these great evils to produce great character in Joseph, making him a man of superior faith, forgiveness, and fortitude.(1)
God could have made Joseph’s path easier, but Joseph proved that God can use the worst circumstances for good (Genesis 50:20; Romans 8:28).
If God can do it for Joseph, He can do it for you!
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(1) God never causes people to sin, but He can use any situation for our good (James 1:13).
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