The older I get the more I realize that purpose, the call and the gift of God is always in your life. But the fallacy is that these things are what are being developed. I beg to differ of course. What gets developed I believe is character, discipline and maturity. Most people have the wrong response when hardship comes against them. At least I'm willing to admit it. A lot of people discredit you if they meet you during a time of hardship. The Bible says it rains on the the just and the unjust but there is this thinking in the some churches that follow the mentality of Job's friends. You could try to pin this on Joseph. Was it a sin to tell a God given dream? Are we not supposed to write the vision and make it plain? God used the very jealousy of his siblings to his purpose. The dreams were the gift, the call was to be second in Egypt, the purpose was to save God's people and preserve the nation Christ would come through. Even in slavery the call was evident. He ruled on whatever level he was. The gift is what got him in the pit and eventually in front of Pharaoh. The purpose wasn't seen until the fulfillment of the dream had come to past.
Gen. 15:19-21 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
This generation has not really been taught to endure anything for Christ sake or the purposes of God. Joseph was falsely accused and thrown into prison and yet the one who threw him in there had to get wheat from him in the famine. What I am trying to say is that NOTHING can stop what God has for you except quitting or settling. What if Joseph had been pleased with running Potiphar's house and just gave in to his wife and really had lost everything? What if Joseph refuse to reveal the meaning of the dreams to the butler and the baker because he felt the gift god gave him was a curse? What is he utterly destroyed his brothers as a final act of revenge? You know these were very possible options and attitudes he could have had. But Joseph had character, discipline and maturity. He realized that whatever was happening to Him was for the purpose of God. He feared God. He walked in his call along the way and was ready when the moment came upon Him. What are you letting sidetrack you today. Don't let what God has placed in your path to bless you be the thing that stops you.
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