My Path, My Journey, My Life

By Joseph 

      God intended me to have the life i have lived. All my past experiences are just a part of God's plan for me. Did I like every single part of his plan? No, most of the time I didn't, but my experiences have brought be closer in my relationship to God and it has brought me closer to my family. I was first put onto my path when my brothers sold me into slavery. I admit I wasn't the most admired brother because I was admired greatly by my father and I had a stuck up attitude, but I changed. Once sold into slavery I worked for a steward of the Pharaoh's. Miraculously, he saw God in me and he showed me respect and made me his personal attendant. I was happy for what had just happened to me a few days before. Then it all changed, my master's wife tried to seduce me to lie with her, I know this is not part of God's plan for me to fall into temptation, so I denied. His wife grew angry with me and was accused of rape, then thrown into the Pharaoh's jail. A couple days of sitting in a cell alone two of the Pharaoh's personal workers, his baker and his cupbearer, were brought down to the jail. They started talking to me and telling me about their dreams they have had and I then interpreted it for them. They were shocked, surprised and nervous about the news. I had heard on the Pharaoh's birthday the cupbearer was reinstated and the baker was impaled, just as I had interpreted from their dreams. The pharaoh himself also had a dream, and hearing of my scene with his workers he asked me to interpret his dream for him and I did. He had experienced the dream twice, different objects used in the dream but they both meant the same thing. Egypt itself would have seven years of greatness but after a famine would hit for seven years and all would lost. This interpretation I made came from God and because I have such a strong relationship and faith with God, I listened. The pharaoh saw I was the only one that could keep his people alive during the harsh times, and he put in charge of his land and his people. I began preparing, and the preparation will soon pay off.