Where is God when life seems unfair? In Genesis 40, Joseph sits in an Egyptian prison for a crime he never committed — yet "God was with him." Dr. Toby Holt shows how God works in the dark seasons when life seems most unfair. Falsely accused and forgotten, Joseph meets Pharaoh's imprisoned cupbearer and baker, and God enables him to interpret their dreams: one restored, one executed. Joseph asks the cupbearer to remember him — but he forgets, and Joseph waits two more years. The delay was not abandonment.

Questions this study answers:

1. What were the dreams about? The cupbearer's three branches and the baker's three baskets each pointed to three days — restoration for one, death for the other. Joseph interpreted both by God's help.

2. Was Joseph treated fairly? No. He was imprisoned unjustly and then forgotten. Yet "God was with him" through it all.

3. What do we learn from Joseph's long wait? That God's timing is not ours, and apparent delays are not abandonment. God was working even when Joseph saw nothing.

"Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him." — Genesis 40:23 (NKJV)

Dr. Toby Holt is President of New Geneva Theological Seminary, and his sermons have been downloaded more than 1.9 million times on SermonAudio. Find more verse-by-verse Bible teaching at newgeneva.org; support this ministry at newgeneva.org/give.