Read the passage: Genesis 37
vs .13,18
1) God may not protect us from a circumstance we would see as harmful.
He may be seeing something beyond it.
(And Israel said unto Joseph…) (and when they saw him afar off …)
Joseph was just doing what he was asked to do by his father.
vs.23
2) God may even allow your favor before others to wane.
(They stripped Joseph out of his coat, …)
also Potiphar
vs.20,25
3) God will intervene as necessary to protect His plan and to extend your life.
(Come now therefore, and let us slay him, …)
(and they lifted up their eyes, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites … )
God did step in and protect his life. He didn't protect Joseph from his brother's abuse.
vs. 28
4) God may allow your life to have little worth before others (for a season).
(and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver:)
vs.36
5) Separation from people you love may even be in God's pathway.
(And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, … )
v.36
6) Many may there be who unknowingly have a hand in God's development of your life.
(Joseph's brothers, Midianite merchant men, … )
7) The testimony is not of the tools but of the one using them to develop you spiritually.
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