Take a Guess

When his master heard the story his wife told him—”These are the things your slave did to me”—he was furious and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him. He granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority, and he was responsible for everything that was done there. The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord made everything that he did successful.

(Genesis 39:19-23 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©)

If you are going to think about how things in your life will turn out, you are going to have to guess at the future. If you are going to guess, why not add faith to your guess and expect things to be full of wonder and the influence of Yahweh?

If Joseph had guessed about his future by thinking of his past, he would never have guessed that he would become ruler over Egypt. Let your guesses be influenced more by Who your God is than by who you were before He gave you a new life, or by the way things worked out the last time you didn’t like the outcome.