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The Amazing Story of Joseph
This chapter is based on Genesis 39 to 41.
Meanwhile, Joseph was on the way to Egypt with his captors.
In the distance the boy could discern the hills among which lay his
father’s tents. He wept bitterly at thought of that loving father in
his loneliness and affliction. Ringing in his ears were the stinging,
insulting words that had met his agonized pleadings at Dothan. With
a trembling heart he looked forward to the future. Alone and friend-
less, what would be his destiny in the strange land to which he was
going? For a time, Joseph gave himself up to uncontrolled grief and
terror.
But even this experience was to be a blessing to him. He had
learned things in a few hours that years might not otherwise have
taught him. His father had done him wrong by his favoritism and
lack of discipline. This had angered his brothers and provoked the
cruel deed that had separated him from his home. In his character,
faults had been encouraged, and he was becoming self-sufficient
and demanding. He felt that he was unprepared to cope with the
difficulties facing him in the bitter, uncared-for life of a slave.
Then his thoughts turned to his father’s God. He had often
listened to the story of the vision that Jacob saw as he fled from
his home as an exile and fugitive. He had been told of the Lord’s
promises to Jacob, and how, in the hour of need, angels had come
to instruct, comfort, and protect him. He had learned of the love of
God in providing a Redeemer. Now all of these precious lessons
came vividly before him. Joseph believed that the God of his fathers
would be his God. Then and there he gave himself fully to the Lord
and prayed that the Keeper of Israel would be with him in his exile.
His soul thrilled with the high resolve to prove true to God, to
act as a subject of the King of heaven. He would meet the trials of
his life with inner strength and perform every duty faithfully. One
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