Are you tapping out??????

Good morning everyone! Did you wake up with a smile on your face? Or, did you wake up with so much on your mind that you couldn't focus? It was crazy this morning. I woke at 4am....So, I laid there trying to go back to sleep.....At 5am.....I was running a marathon in my brain......At 6am......I was tired and wanted to sleep. Well, I guess that wasn't the plan. I will say that I fought it! I laid in bed and tried to force myself back to sleep. Not! So, I tapped out and realized I wasn't able to sleep for a reason. So, picked up the good Word and this is what I dug up with God's help. Let's dig in together and see what it shows us.

Bible Verse: Genesis 39:1-2 "Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master."

Have you ever thought "A good and powerful God would never have let such a terrible thing happen in my life!" Or, maybe you have heard someone else say that? Maybe you feel "I serve the Lord and do what right, I am in a safe place." Maybe it was a physical attack, an illness, or a death. Maybe it didn't even happen to you, but to someone you love.

Are you feeling what I am trying to say? Do you understand the feeling. What's the good of belonging to the most powerful being in the universe if He won't act to keep tragedy from falling on our heads? From the sky falling. Joseph could have asked that question. Did he? let's think about this. He'd just been attacked, robbed, and then sold as a slave to slave traders and slapped in chains. I would dare say that he had little hope of ever seeing his dad and little brother again. Guess what? Guess who did this to him? This was all done to him by his 10 older brothers!

Ok, stay with me. Instead of Joseph deciding that the God who would allow such a thing really wasn't worth following, Joseph seems to have made a totally different choice. A choice to believe the truth and not tap out! The truth that God was still with Him. He made a choice to continue to serve God. The bummer in this story is that we're not told about any of his feelings, but God blessed Joseph. Guess what? He kept blessing him. Now remember, God did not keep Joseph from experiencing the pain through those terrible circumstances. But, joseph stayed the course.

I want to ask you a real life question and pray you can be honest with yourself and God. Do you judge God's goodness or power by your own personal circumstances? What's wrong with that idea? Let's ask God for the courage to keep trusting Him even when hard things come into your life today. Then, let's read Genesis 37:12-36 to find out the whole story of what Joseph's brothers did to him and what happened. Have a great Saturday and God bless.