The roads we travel in life are full of landmines and booby traps. By God’s grace you will navigate around some. But there will be times allowed by God for you to navigate through them.
RELEVANCE
Joseph experienced a real trap. He told a dream to his jealous brothers. They didn’t like the implications of the dream so they threw him in a pit; then later sold him into slavery. His journey in life brought him from the pit to the prison to the palace of Egypt to eventual prosperity. God had a great purpose beyond the trap.
The Bible is full of stories illustrating God’s faithfulness to people who will seek Him for life’s solutions. We are warned, however, to be vigilant and watchful for traps. There is an enemy of your soul seeking to devour you. The good news is God uses what the enemy means for bad for His good purposes; to strengthen and settle you in trusting faith.
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever” (1 Peter 5:8-11).
Thank God for His grace and leading us in triumph in Christ—for His glory!
“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life” (2 Corinthians 2:14-16).
REFLECT AND RELATE
God’s sovereignty transcends the traps of life. Regardless how entrenched you may be, reach up for His hand. Have Him prove His “hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear” (Isaiah 59:1).
REFERENCES
Isaiah 59:16-21