Other studies from this week's reading: Joseph, Moses & David
share something in common in that God planned for them to be
great rulers, but they had to be trained up not according to the
world’s ways but God’s. Joseph’s father Jacob had tried to spare
Joseph from the responsibilities of work and treat him special,
but God knew Joseph could never be the kind of ruler God wanted
him to be until Joseph first learned to be a servant. God used a
series of three types of discipline in Joseph’s life to prepare
him to become the second ruler over all of Egypt, but according
to God’s requirements that His leaders have a servant’s heart.
|1Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an
Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard,
bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.
2The Lord was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he
was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. 3Now his master
saw that the Lord was with him and how the Lord caused all that
he did to pros