Do you ever feel lost? Learn how to persevere through the twists and turns of life, all to the glory of God, who knows us each by name!

How many times does it seem that we are nowhere we want to be?

Or worse, going in the opposite direction of where we intend to go?

As I read about Joseph in Genesis 37, it only reinforces what I have already seen in the patriarchs thus far- a trend.

So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt. Genesis 37:28 NIV

I remember Abraham and how long he was fatherless while getting older by the day. I remember Isaac being fatherless 20 years after he married Rebekah. I remember Jacob fleeing to keep safe from Esau and going into "life" alone and a land unknown, far from his home and family.

Now I see it happening with Joseph.

But then come the twists and turns in life... unforeseen and undeterred.

What about you? Are you where you want to be? Where you planned to be? Has life taken twists and turns from where you envisioned yourself at this point in your life? Is it taking you longer to get where you want to go? Be what you want to be? Does it seem you are no closer to your goal of marriage? A baby? A job opportunity? An empty nest or a prodigal returning?

Not to spoil the unfolding of the story, but Joseph does end up right where he was supposed to, with the life God prepared for him, full of promise and purpose.

So will you.

And so will I.

Only let us wait just as faithfully through the twists and turns as we see Joseph! As the story unfolds through the rest of Genesis, may we learn from him how to persevere through the twists and turns of life, all to the glory of God, who knows us each by name!

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