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Taking Charge

Genesis 39:23

The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.

As a teenager, I spent one summer working in a cabinetry warehouse to the ambience of beeping fork-lifts and buzzing electric drills and pounding nail-guns, and it was no easy task. But I learned something valuable. I remember a buff guy named Tommy with tattoos all over his arms and a motorcycle out back teaching me how to ‘fake work’: how to grab a drill and stick my head into an unfinished cabinet whenever the boss walked by; but I also remember a bi-vocational pastor named Steve working with a smile on his face and reading his Bible during our short lunch breaks. He didn’t have tattoos on his arms or a hog out back, but he was tough as nails. And I noticed two things from watching him work: that the Lord was with him, and that the boss trusted him. And the cabinets he built were solid— just like him.

Friend, may we be the kind of people who serve just as faithfully in the shadows of an Egyptian dungeon as we do in the spotlight of an Egyptian palace.