In Control

Its easy to forget that God is ultimately in control of everything. People let you down, finances are tight, car breaks down, life throws you a curve and that old familiar voice starts whispering his lies. Man you could never find a job, this car is done for, you can't handle this. When things start to feel chaotic the first thing I let go of is the all comforting sense that God has it in his hands.
I wonder how Joseph felt. His own family, whom he trusted enough to tell his dreams to, sold him into slavery, he was accused of rape, and was then thrown into prison. And I try to figure out where God is when my truck breaks down! His whole life changed and seemingly was taken from him. Thats the funny thing about God though is that in order for him to show us just how in control he is there is sometimes this whole journey of seeing things look out of our own control. If Joseph had never been sold into slavery things would've been easier for him for a while, but then a famine would sweep the land and he and his family would starve to death. Instead God brought him to the center of a heartless Egyptian empire and there brought him into a position of authority so that God would not only deliver Joseph and his family but also the entire nation.
God has whats best for us. Just because we're in some rotten stinking jail for a crime we didn't commit doesn't mean that God has left us. He is in control, and who knows maybe somehow one day we'll see that we didn't get that job, or a promotion or our cars broke down in order to shape how an entire nation would have to rely on him alone. Never forget: GOD IS IN CONTROL.