Monday, January 19, 2009
Anyway so the story of Joseph moves on to how Joseph because of his righteousness ended up in the prison. I thought it was pretty depressing at times to see that how righteous people get thrown into persecution and all when they really have done nothing wrong. But God’s way of doing things was pretty, interesting as well. God could have done the “miraculous escape” (think Peter) but instead he kept Joseph in the jail for two years (it would have been earlier if not for the cupbearer) but with the blessing to be the head of the prison. I started to realize that God always have blessings in stalled for us, it is whether we want to look at it or not. At the root of it all, Joseph was still in prison for something he did not do, so on a very secular/selfish point it’s like hey, it’s still unfair. So what if he was the prison head, he shouldn’t even be in prison the first place! It is like how we say, we study so hard, in the end, our results are crap still. Maybe God gave us other blessings (eg friends?) but we just keep harping on the study bit and we neglect everything. This part of genesis is one of the few parts of bible that God’s name was clearly written when it comes to blessings. A lot of times I had to INFER that God was behind it all. And I guess this can be used as an example to remind us that God honours the righteous in His own way, and like what Jesus always said, let those who have eyes to see, see and those who have the ears, hear. God’s message is not for the carnal world but the purified soul.
Innocence
2:24 PM
