“The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.”
Genesis 39:23
The ladies at our church are reading through the Bible in a year together, and I honestly love seeing everyone’s daily comments…what stood out, what the Holy Spirit is teaching, and even what they’re wrestling through. The other day as I was reading, the verse above really caught me off guard, and if I’m being honest, it made me pause and wrestle with a hard question: why not me? Why don’t I feel that way?
It says the Lord was with him and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper. And I immediately feel that tension, because there are days I don’t feel like “whatever I do” is prospering at all.
Here’s the hard truth: God’s prosperity doesn’t always look like ease, speed, or visible wins. Joseph was faithful and still betrayed, accused, and ended up in a prison. Does that sound like Joseph is prospering? Whatever “prosper” means here, it has to be something deeper. I think Joseph prosperity looked like God’s presence on him, God’s favor in the middle of hardships, and God making his faithfulness effective even when his circumstances weren’t changing just yet. I believe the Lord is prospering the work in each of us who may wrestling with the “why not me” by strengthening what’s happening in us…integrity, endurance, humility, obedience, before we ever see the fruit around us.
That morning I asked the Lord to search me, not with condemnation, just with clarity. If there’s anywhere I’ve delayed obedience, I want to be quick to say yes. And if I’m in a hidden season where the fruit isn’t visible yet, I don’t want to confuse “quiet” with “absent.” He met me so faithfully in that moment, and I know He’ll meet you too. And the question I was wrestling with turned into a declaration: whatever I do, the Lord makes it prosper! I just have a better understanding now of what true prosperity really is.
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