Jacob favored Joseph over his other sons, which made them jealous. Joseph’s dreams indicated that he would one day rule over his family. This made his brothers even angrier. So they sold Joseph into slavery, and he was taken to Egypt. In spite of the brothers’ sin, God used these events to bring Joseph to Egypt and accomplish his sovereign plan.

We know that things like this are really difficult. When we are going through them, it doesn’t seem like there could be anything good in it. Joseph may have felt that way, too. How could anything good come from being sold as a slave?

But we learned today that God is sovereign and in control of everything. Not only that—all of his plans are perfect. So when things get bad and we are hurting, we need to remember Joseph. God didn’t let his brothers kill him, and God had a perfect plan for him. It sure didn’t seem perfect at the time, but we’ll see later that it really was!

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