Thought for the Week

My hero continues to grow. Joseph has come to Egypt as a slave at age seventeen. By the age of 30, he rose to be Prime Minister of Egypt. That is a marvel. He did it without doing violence to anyone. But this is not the reason I see him as a hero. He has interpreted Pharaoh’s dream. Pharaoh recognized there would be no one in a better position to get Egypt through the years ahead than Joseph for Joseph worshipped God and God blest Joseph. We have now gone through the seven years of abundant harvest. Joseph has levied twenty percent of these harvests against the future. The harvest must have be...