Submission, Suffering, and Prosperity - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man.

The chief of the tower-house looked not to anything under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and what he did, Jehovah made it prosper.
Genesis 39:2; Genesis 39:23

Submission, Suffering, and Prosperity
The submissive man will ever be a prosperous man. Nature would say that slavery and prosperity must be an impossible combination, but if we submit to His ways, the presence of the Lord can turn days of adversity into days of prosperity. All the world would admit that Joseph was a prosperous man in the day of his exaltation, but faith sees, and God declares, that he was a prosperous man in the day of his humiliation. He will, in due time, ride prosperously as the ruler of Egypt, but first he must live prosperously as the slave of an Egyptian. The prosperity of the prison must precede the prosperity of the palace.

The trials and the sorrows, the losses and the crosses, the rough ways and the dark valleys, will all become occasions of the greatest soul prosperity if we remember that God has a settled purpose for us in glory, and that in the meantime all His ways with us are in view of His purpose for us. In the light of His purpose we shall be able to submit to His ways, and submitting we shall find the Lord with us; and if the Lord is with us, we shall prosper with that prosperity that is above all—the prosperity of the soul. "Beloved," says the aged apostle, .

Hamilton Smith
May the mind of Christ my Savior live in me from day to day,By His love and power controlling all I do and say.May the Word of God dwell richly in my heart from hour to hour,So that all may see I triumph only through His power.

K. B. Wilkinson