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And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man, and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 39:2
Can you just imagine your brothers, out of extreme jealousy, actually throw you down in a pit and debate on what to do with you?
Then they decide to actually sell you?
Why are they doing this to me? What did I do to get them to come together against me to the point of possible death? I can't believe this. Where is my dad? Where is God?
I can imagine all of these thoughts-and more- were going through Joseph's head while this was happening.
And yet, once in Egypt working as a servant for Potiphar, that he was seen as a prosperous man?
Let's check out verse 3:
"And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosperous in his hand. "
So while I'm sure that Joseph was probably still in shock and depressed, his owner ( he was a slave ) whom he doesn't even know saw who was with him. Amazing!
I wonder if Joseph felt prosperous. His brothers sold him off as a slave to people he didn't know. In fact, THE BROTHERS probably didn't know the slave traffickers either.
Was there anything in Joseph's life at that time that might cause a "feeling" of prosperity?!! Not that I read. Not at all. But yet, the book of Genesis says that he was. And Potiphar certainly saw something special in him. nteresting.
Why would it be written that He was a prosperous man? He had no place of his own. He was literally a slave. That sounds like just the opposite of prosperity.
But, let's look at the same verse, but a few words back. It says," and the LORD was with Joseph ". Ah-hah!!
It's not about what you might have, it's about who is with you through some of life's hardest times.
Who is with you today??
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