Faith Capsule: The final say over your life belongs to God.
Genesis 39, Genesis 41:37-57
The bible recorded, “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. ” (Genesis 37:3-4) The love of Israel for Joseph set him up against is brothers. As if the love of his father was not provoking enough, he had a dream to fuel brother’s hatred for him. It is written, “Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more. So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.” (Genesis 37:5-7) Joseph’s dream and his father’s love set him up for a route that was not in his dream. When his father sent him to check his brothers on the field he entered into the route of his dream. He started his journey inside an empty pit where there was no water. As if the pit was not enough, the brothers sold him as a slave. The bible recorded, “Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.” (Genesis 37:28) The story of Joseph continued as he passed through from slave to prison; from prison to Prime Minister. The bottom line of Joseph’s story is the truth that God will always have the final say in the journey of man’s life if man stands upright or stand in awe of Him that holds the whole word in His hand.
Who could have thought that David, a man after God’s own heart, a man that delivered the whole nation from the embarrassment of Goliath would run from his country like a fugitive? Despite David status as a celebrity, when King Saul turned against him there was none among the well and able population that could back him up or rendered support. It is written in 1 Samuel 22:2, “And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him. ” David the celebrated champion of the whole nation only had the backings of the relegated ones. Above all, he became king after Saul. Whatever has moved you from your ground of celebration and seems to contradict the promise of God for your life shall not have the final say over your life. The final say over your life belongs to God.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to remain focus on God in all paths of life.