Joseph's Pit

“The LORD was with Joseph…”
(Genesis 39:2 & 21)

Joseph’s life was the “pits”…literally. Two times Joseph spent time in a pit. Once was when his “loving” brothers took him, at the age of 15, and threw him in a pit, with the intent to kill him. But God had other plans. So he was sold into slavery which ended him up in Egypt, in the house of  Potiphar the captain of the guards of Pharaoh. At this point the Bible says something very important, “The Lord was with Joseph…” This is not the only time we will see this in the life of Joseph.

Another time is when Joseph, while working in Potiphar’s house, was seduced by Potiphar’s wife. He stood strong and instead of sleeping with her, he ran. Which made her very angry, she accused him of rape and had him arrested. Again he was thrown into a pit, Egypt’s version of prison, where he spent many years. But again we see in verse 21, “…the Lord was with Joseph…” It’s cool that both times this is stated, is when he was pulled from a pit.

You ever feel like your life is full of pits? Unemployment pits. Loneliness pits. Divorce pits. Dead-end job pits, pits of emptiness, debt, and struggles. If so, remember one thing if you are a child of God who is living for Him…the Lord is with you. The same God that was with Joseph through the pits of his life…is the same God that is and will be with you through yours. And not only will He be with you, He will also make what you do and what you are involved in, within His will, succeed (Genesis 39:2 & 23).


Vern