The Life of Joseph: Lesson Seven

God's timing is not our timing.

Joseph was seventeen when his trouble started.

Genesis 37:2 (KJV): These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

The butler he helped forgot all about him.

Genesis 40:23 (KJV): Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

The word of the LORD tried him until the time came.

Psalms 105:17-19 (KJV): He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

He was thirty when he stood before Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:46 (KJV): And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

In one day, Pharaoh set him over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:41 (KJV): And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.