Life Lessons from the Bible: New Insights on Joseph
This week I was reading in the Bible, the story of Joseph of Egypt-a story I've read many times, but I had some new insights this week. Most everyone knows the basics...his father Jacob loved Joseph so much that his brothers were jealous of him. So they sold him to some travelers and told their father he had been killed by a wild beast.
Now, the only thing Joseph ever really did to bring his fate upon himself was to be so well trusted and beloved. But at a tender age he was taken from his family to become basically a slave. But what I realized is that the Lord had a greater plan for Joseph. Here he had these terrible things happen to him through no fault of his own that were the Lord