Let’s exam another man’s life that understood the guarding God’s perspective during adversity. Let’s peek into the life of Joseph. When he shared his dream with his brothers, they hated him even more (Genesis 37:8 )“They asked these questions when they heard his dream: “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So, they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.” Not even his father understood Joseph’s dream and he rebuked him for it. There will be times in your life that when God reveals his dream to you for you that there will be those around you that will not understand.
Joseph’s dream set him apart from his family. Your dream will set you apart. You must understand to fulfill that dream, you will have to learn to guard God’s perspective prophetically to see it come to pass.
Shortly after he shared his dreams, Joseph’s whole life was never the same. His brothers not only sold him into slavery, but they were also going to kill him. He went from being his father’s favorite son to a slave. Joseph was forsaken by his family, betrayed by his master’s wife, and forgotten by the chief butler while in prison.
He was suffering. Life didn’t seem fair. It even felt like God himself had forsaken, betrayed, and forgotten him.
The bible doesn’t tell us the nights Joseph wept before the Lord.
It doesn’t tell us how many nights he asked to see his father face one more time.
It doesn’t tell us how many times he wished he could have given up and died.
But I’m convinced because God gave him a dream; it kept him alive. If you are experiencing things in your life and you have not done anything to deserve the suffering, maybe you are asking God, why you? God is asking you, why not you. We are not greater than our Lord. It pleased the father to bruise Jesus. Do we not think we will not be bruised as well?
How many of us would have never done anything for them after what they did? For him to fulfill his dream, he had to guard his “why”. I’m convinced that God didn’t bring Joseph out until he could look down and see that he learned to see it from his perspective. This was Joseph’s response after revealing himself to his brothers: “Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. Genesis 45
7 And God sent me before you to preserve your posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of his entire house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
What happened to you and what is God’s perspective in your adversity?