Through the lens of Young adult
Joseph in Egypt — faithful in the dark
The most repeated sentence in Joseph’s story is the one most easily missed. The LORD was with him. In the slave quarters. In the prison. After the forgetting.
You are at an age where you spend a lot of energy trying to get out of the room you are in. Out of your parents’ house. Out of the entry-level job. Out of the city. Out of the singleness. Out of the season that hasn’t matched the dreams.
Joseph would tell you the secret of Genesis 39 is not getting out. It is Whose presence the room actually contains. The Father was with him in every room — the rooms he wanted to leave and the rooms he didn’t yet know he would.
The exaltation came eventually. But the with-ness came first. And the with-ness shaped him into the man who could survive the exaltation. Most of us would be ruined by the palace if we hadn’t been with God in the prison.
One small thing today: in the room you most want to leave, stop for sixty seconds. Don’t escape. Don’t scroll. Just say out loud — the LORD is with me here. Let that be the actual answer.