JOSEPH was a man who walked in fellowship with God. His brethren tried to get rid of him: Satan attempted to put him down: but they could not, although he lay so long in the Egyptian prison. The skeptical and unbelieving of that day might have said: “Look at that man: he serves the God of his fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: he will not turn aside a hair’s-breadth from the worship of the unknown God: yet see how his God serves him! He is in prison!”
But wait God’s time. It is better to be in prison with God than in a palace without Him. It is said that he was in prison: but—and I like that expression— “God was with him.” If a man is in communion with God, He will not leave him. God never deserts His children in their hour of need: and, in due time, Joseph came off victorious, exchanged the prison for a throne, and was made ruler over all Egypt. What a power he was in Egypt when God had taken him from prison and put him in his proper place! “The Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man . . . and his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand” (Gen. 39:2, 32And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. (Genesis 39:2‑3)).