Purpose & Calling
My life feels stuck on pause while I wait for God to move. Is he actually doing anything right now?
“Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.”
Joseph had interpreted a fellow prisoner's dream and asked one small favour in return: remember me. The narrator then closes the chapter with a forgotten man in an Egyptian cell, and two more years pass before anything changes. The reader knows what Joseph cannot, that the delay is doing something. From inside the cell it looked exactly like being abandoned.
“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
Jesus had healed a man at a pool in Jerusalem on the Sabbath and was challenged for working on the day of rest. His reply is that his Father has never stopped working, and neither has he. It is a claim about God's character as much as about his own identity: activity that is constant, and frequently invisible to the people it is happening around.
A path forward
Write down what has actually changed in you over the last two years rather than around you. Stalled seasons usually show their work internally first.
Pick one thing you would need to be ready for if the door opened, and give it two hours a week: a course, a skill, a conversation.
Read the Joseph story in Genesis 37 to 45 in one or two sittings, watching how much of it happens in prisons, pits and delays.
Closing verse
“The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.”
- Psalm 138:8
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