What do you do when the very people meant to love you most are the ones who wound you? This sermon walks through the life of Joseph, from the cistern his brothers threw him into, through Potiphar’s house and an Egyptian prison, to Pharaoh’s palace (Genesis 37 and 39). In each of those places one sentence keeps returning: the Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph refuses to answer evil with evil, because he knows our faithfulness to God does not depend on other people’s faithfulness to us. Listen if you want to see that God saves us not only from something, but for something.
Our Faithfulness, God’s Plan
Responsible
Andy Stanley once said, “Your lack of responsibility will eventually become someone else’s responsibility.” In other words, if you don’t take responsibility for what has been entrusted to you, someone else will have to take that responsibility for you. A wise life is one in which we don’t shift the blame onto others but face challenges head-on; we don’t burden others with the need to hold our hands, but instead become a source of support for others ourselves.
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