My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. Isaiah 55:8

Jeremiah 29:11- “For I know the plans I have for you” says theLord “they are plans of good and not disaster to give you a future and a hope”

John 8:7 ....Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her

Proverb 11:12- Whoever belittles another lack sense, but an intelligent person remains silent

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Isaiah 61:3

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Loyalty to God, faith in the Unseen, was Joseph’s anchor. In this lay the hiding of his power." Ed 54.1

God designed that he should obtain an experience by temptations, adversity, and hardships, to prepare him to fill an exalted position (Spiritual Gifts 3:146). 1BC 1097.5

An upright character is of greater worth than the gold of Ophir. Without it none can rise to an honorable eminence. The formation of a noble character is the work of a lifetime. God gives opportunities; success depends upon the use made of them. EP 148.3