Genesis 39:19

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger.

From Background Notes [BN] for June 28th & 29th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Which is worse: a pit or a prison? For certain, the pit had no water, according to our writer. Presumably prison did. But then again, Joseph ends up in both places without just provocation. He could have whined, "it's just not fair!"

By now, however, he seems to have caught the current of the divine river flowing through his life, whose courses jagged left and right and cut their way through the parched ground that had become his experience. What will happen next? Is it harder to get out of an Egyptian prison or out of the pit at Dothan? Once more, the echoes of the text are heard: "But the Lord was with Joseph…" (39:21). Does it matter where we find ourselves? [BN,7]

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* Saturday 6:00pm
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