Gen 39 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in
Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not
concern himself with anything except the food he
ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 7 and
after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph
and said, “Come to bed with me!”8 But he
refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my
master does not concern himself with anything in the
house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my
care.
9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master
has withheld nothing from me except you, because you
are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing
and sin against God?” 10 And though she spoke to
Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her
or even be with her.11 One day he went into the house
to attend to his duties, and none of the household
servants was inside. 12 She caught him by his cloak and
said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in
her hand and ran out of the house.
13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had
run out of the house, 14 she called her household
servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been
brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep
with me, but I screamed. 15 When he heard me scream for help,
he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
16 She kept his cloak beside her until his master came
home. 17 Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you
brought us came to me to make sport of me. 18 But as soon as I
screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the
house.”
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying,
“This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with
anger. 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the
place where the king’s prisoners were confined.
But while Joseph was there in the prison, 21 the LORD was with
him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes
of the prison warden. 22 So the warden put Joseph in charge of
all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all
that was done there. 23 The warden paid no attention to anything
under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and
gave him success in whatever he did.
Pit Moments of Life
Disappointment
- Unmet expectations & False assumptions: God’s the one who’s supposed to take care of me
- Expectations and assumptions of others: relationships
- Idolatry: something or someone in your life has taken the place of God on the throne of your heart.
Question:
What’s ultimately bringing on that feeling of disappointment?
Emptiness & Brokenness
What to do? Vs 21 “ The lord was with Joseph “
*Scripture does not teach that everything that happens
in life happens because God has directly caused it or
willed it to happen. God does not will sin, and He does
not will evil.
Question:
If we truly believed that God was
always with us, how much more would
we live and walk as people of trust
towards the one who is in control and is
with us in the pit?
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