Through the lens of Young adult
Joseph sold by his brothers
You are in a season where pits are common. Job rejections. Relationships that end. Friend groups that dissolve. A version of yourself that doesn’t pan out. A school, a church, a city, a calling that you thought was the one — and it isn’t.
Genesis 37 says the pit is real. The text doesn’t try to dress it up. Joseph was thrown into an actual pit. By people who should have loved him. Without warning.
But Genesis 37 is chapter one of fourteen. Joseph’s story is fourteen chapters long. He spends three of them in the pit-and-prison phase. Three of fourteen. He gets exalted in chapter forty-one. He saves the family in chapter forty-five. He has the most beautiful sentence in the Old Testament in chapter fifty — you planned evil against me; God planned it for good (Gen 50:20).
The pit is not the whole story. It is one chapter. Even if it lasts a year, even if it lasts five, the Father is writing the rest.
One small thing today: stop trying to write the ending. Just take one step forward in the chapter you are in. Faithfulness in the pit is what gets you to chapter two.