In the adult class tonight, the study focused on Joseph. There was a good bit of discussion regarding what scripture says (or does not say) about what Joseph was privy to regarding all that God was doing in his life (the bad and good).

While we see Joseph’s life over several chapters of Genesis and beyond, our narrow view of his life does not convey the reality of just what all he went through. Nor do we see his emotions in his journey. But we don’t see scripture ever suggest he was not faithful.

While it is very clear that his life was exceptional as far as God looks at man, the discussions tonight suggested that Joseph may not have been very clear what was going on behind the scenes. However the passage below seems to confirm that Joseph was more clear on what God was doing through his experiences than we give him credit.

Food for thought…

“Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Make everyone go out from me!” So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it. Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph; does my father still live?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence. And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. “Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry.” (Genesis 45:1-9)