Into The Unknown

What do you do when you are forced against your will into the unknown? Today we look at how Joseph handled being forced into the unknown.

Genesis 37:1-4
Divine election often looks and feels like natural alienation. Joseph had a job. He was a Shepard. He had to work harder than everyone else. He had to give a bad report of his brothers. When Joseph gives the bad report, he was hated. He simply told the truth. Sometimes you may feel alienated/alone. God put you in that place because you have been elected for something greater than where you are. The alienation is a mask of your election. God is doing something in you to stir up provocation in someone else to stir up the unknown. Joseph didn’t make up the dream. The Holy Spirit gave him the dream to share. It was the will of God for Joseph to tell the dream. This stirred up provocation in the brothers and forced Joseph to the unknown.

Genesis 37:24
This is deep, but it’s not going to kill you! They threw Joseph in the pit, but there was no water in it. They were hoping Joseph would die by drowning, but there was no water. Praise Him in the pit...there’s no water in it!

Genesis 39:11-12
Joseph got out the pit and is now doing well. Every transition into the unknown is marked by shedding. However, this is necessary to delete opportunities for sin. God will use others to get you to your next. Joseph brothers and then Potiphar’s wife shed his coat. Some things you will have to shed. If you have a problem shedding, God will send something to snatch it off of you.

Genesis 45:1-7
Famine has happened in the land of Canaan.
Because of the famine, all of Joseph brothers have to come to him. The brothers were taken away at Joseph presence. The way you frame and view your story will be the difference between disaster and deliverance. Joseph could have had a pity party. Instead of looking at it as a disaster, it became a deliverance for Joseph and the people around him.

You have no excuse
to not be excellent.