Passing chapter 38 which is another sad story of sinful ways, we come to the story of Joseph again in the chapter 39. Here is Joseph now in Egypt, and though he must have been often lonely and sad, wishing he was at home with his kind and loving father, we learn from verse 2 that God was with Joseph, and verse 3 tells us that his master saw it too. Isn’t it nice to read that about Joseph? for it shows us that he acted like one of those that belong to God; he wasn’t ashamed, though .he was in a foreign land, and had no one of God’s children to speak to as far as we know.
By and by the master made Joseph to be over everything in his house, and trusted him with everything, and then God’s blessing was more seen than before. But Satan had his eyes on Joseph, and so through a wicked woman, Joseph’s master’s wife, he was one day put in jail, though he hadn’t done anything to be put there for. This must have seemed very hard to Joseph, to be sent to prison because that bad woman told lies about him, but God was still looking out for Joseph, and what Satan planned to do, and God let him, was only going to lead the right way after all. So we read in the last two verses of this chapter that Joseph was given charge of all the prisoners, and all that he did the Lord made to prosper.
Joseph suffered for wrongs which he did not do. and he took it all meekly, and with no thought of revenge. We see these characters in all their perfection in the Lord Jesus. “When He was reviled, He reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously.” 1 Peter 2:2323Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: (1 Peter 2:23). This is what God delights in, and if we belong to the Lord, we shall seek to follow His example.