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\nGenesis 39:19\u00a0 <\/span>As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, \u201cThis is the way your servant treated me,\u201d his anger was kindled. And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison. But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it. The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Potiphar knew what kind of woman his wife was and he knew what kind of man Joseph was. His\u00a0anger\u00a0probably came because he knew that her accusation against Joseph was not true.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cDeath was the only penalty Joseph could reasonably expect. His reprieve presumably owed much to the respect he had won; and Potiphar\u2019s mingled wrath and restraint may reflect a faint misgiving about the full accuracy of the charge.\u201d (Kidner)<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never said a word, that I can learn, about Potiphar\u2019s wife. It seemed necessary to his own defense, but he would not accuse the woman; he let judgment go by default, and left her to her own conscience and her husband\u2019s cooler consideration. This showed great power; it is hard for a man to compress his lips, saying nothing when his character is at stake. So eloquent was Joseph in his silence that there is not a word of complaint throughout the whole record of his life.\u00a0He felt it a cruel thing, to be under such a slander, and to suffer for his innocence. A young man so pure, so chaste, must have felt it to be sharper than a whip of scorpions to be accused as he was; yet as he sat down in the gloom of his cell, the Lord was with him. The Lord was with Joseph none the less when he was cast into the prison. He knew God was with him in prison, and therefore he did not sit down sullenly in his sorrow, but he bestirred himself to make the best of his afflicted condition.\u201d\u00a0 (Spurgeon)<\/p>\n
Joseph went:<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0From privilege in his father\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0To the pit his brothers threw him into.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0To being property in the slave market.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0To the privilege of managing Potiphar\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0To the principled stand against temptation.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0To the perjury of false accusation.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0To the prison of Pharaoh.<\/p>\n
We can see the\u00a0mercy\u00a0in this, because if Potiphar had believed his wife, he certainly would have put Joseph to death. We can see the\u00a0injustice\u00a0in this, because Joseph suffered for someone else\u2019s sin. As Christians, we remember someone who perfectly resisted all temptation, who as He stood for righteousness was stripped of His garments, and who was then punished for the sins of others. \u00a0We can see\u00a0God\u2019s hand\u00a0in all of this. All of this moves God\u2019s story forward, putting Joseph in the place where he can save his family and the whole world from coming famine, and prepare a place for them to live with him. If God blessed Joseph in the pit, if He blessed Joseph the slave, we are not surprised to see that He blessed Joseph in prison. None of these terrible circumstances changed or defeated God\u2019s plan for Joseph\u2019s life. \u00a0As happened before in the house of Potiphar, Joseph rose to the top, becoming the chief administrator of the prison. Through his experience in both places, God sharpened the administrative skills Joseph needed to one day save his family and to save the whole world. (Guzik)<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know about you but when I am wrongly accused I want to state my case and prove it not true at the expense of the offender. The integrity of Joseph is beyond my understanding and yet an example to glean wisdom and understanding from. It is not by our might, wisdom, knowledge, power, or eloquent language skills that we are to reliant but by the power, might, purpose, and plans of God.\u00a0 <\/span>Oh, that we would not rest in our own power for defense but rather be in total reliance on God alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Genesis 39:19\u00a0 As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, \u201cThis is the way your servant treated me,\u201d his anger was kindled. And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison. … Continue reading “38.t. “And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1400,685,16185,452,7504,4350,796,16184,4855,9,511,3927,8134],"class_list":["post-154093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-anger","tag-attention","tag-confined","tag-favor","tag-joseph","tag-kindled","tag-lord","tag-mater","tag-prison","tag-servant","tag-steadfast-love","tag-succeed","tag-with-him"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154096,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154093\/revisions\/154096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}