Who Controls the Trajectory of You Life?

"Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets." Amos 3:7 But did he know this sitting alone in his cell? His brothers had betrayed him, when he had responded to temptation righteously he had been slandered, and now he sat in his cell forgotten. But was he truly forgotten? Could Joseph have known that the course he was on had been chosen for him from the beginning of time?

"Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgement on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions." Genesis 15:13-14 God had determined the trajectory of Abraham's descendants before any had been born. He knew they would go to Egypt how long they would stay and that he would deliver them.

In the fullness of time Joseph stood before Pharaoh. His trust in God had been fully tested. What Pharaoh saw before him was a man in whom the Spirit of God dwelt. Because Joseph had chosen to trust God he had entered into a place of rest in the midst of turmoil. It was rest for his soul. A place of surrender to an Sovereign Lord.

After four hundred years, just as God had foretold, Israel called out to Him in their distress and He delivered them. According to Psalm 81 he answered them in the secret place of thunder; and tested them at the waters of Meribah. He tested them to see if they would trust Him. He brought them out of slavery and promised them that if they would only open wide their mouth He would fill it. But they wouldn't listen,they wouldn't submit, they chose their own counsel over God's counsel. The path God had chosen for them would have lead them to inter into His rest. In their rebellion they chose a different way.

Lord Jesus, sometimes life is hard and I do not understand what I see. Please help me be like Joseph and put my faith in you. I do believe it is your will to bring honey from the rock,sweetness from the hardest places of my life. Lord please don't let me by lack of faith alter the trajectory you have chosen for my life.