God speaks, and Joseph, the chief of the slaves.

 

They preach God as a relationship, Christ as a doorway to God.

What of the natural, Living God?  What of the God that reveals his love and wisdom to us everyday, in the common discourse?  THAT God.

The experiential God, along with the soul-stirring love of both He and the Savior.

Case in point, I'm sitting, standing, and a devotional program comes on, one of those dismal money preachers, but he's on the low-end of the spectrum, just beginning to build-out, just beginning that forecasted "increase" of income, wealth, and he's sitting a little table with two Bibles and a notebook.  He reads Du Toit, the sort of heretic devotional architect behind the Mirror Bible.

Meanwhile, outside, the heat of spring dials-down a notch, the clouds come over, and a gentle rain begins to spread over the land.  The pleasantness of the effect is without question; meanwhile the man is talking about the technicolor Joseph, and how God picked up Joseph's spirit.

Of Joseph's bad events in life, he had been told beforehand that he was favored of God.  

How do you think that effected Joseph?  Did it give him a certainty that lasted through, that cut the turmoil of being left in a pit to die, and then becoming a slave?

Classically churning the orange juice into Mountain Dew, rising above it all, that if man made Joseph a slave, he would be the chief slave, the most important of them all.

That blessing withstanding still, decades later, he confronted his brothers seemingly without guile, but hesitant to reveal his true identity to the them.

Joseph had a word sustaining him.

And he was watching the plan of God unfold before him.

As the pastor went through all this, the raindrops fell, feeding the foliage.

The word, too, feeding my soul.