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, 3).