Lies and Deceit

Now Joseph was well built and handsome. After some time his master's wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, "Sleep with me." But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority. No one in this house is greater I am. He has withheld nothing form me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"
Although she spoke to him day after day he refused to go to bed with her. Now one day he went into the house to do his work and none of the household servants were there. She grabbed him by his garment and said, "Sleep with me!" But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
When she saw that he had lef his garment with her and run outside, she called the household servants, "Look," she said to them, "my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep, and I screamed as loud as I could. When he heard me screaming for help, he left his garment with me and ran outside."
She put Joseph's garment beside her until his master came home. Then she told him the same story,
When his master heard the story his wife told him he was furious and had him thrown into prison, where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison. Genesis 39:1-17; 19,20

Potiphar's wife was full of lust and determined to have her own way or punish Joseph for not giving in. This is a common thheme in story books, especially the Jane Eyre type book. However, this was a true story and one that tells of a righteous young man being imprisoned wrongly.

I admire Joseph's character.  I respect him for his self-control. Although he was a beloved son of Jacob's he did not exhibit he same carnal passions of his brothers. Here was a young man who feared God. Perhaps he watched his father worshipping God and was touched by the wonder of this God his father served.

Potiphar's wife did nor care that now her husband would be inconvenienced, she wanted what she wanted. Potiphar did not doubt his wife, silly man! If she had this problem now it would surface again.

Prison was unfair and unjust, but God had a plan. A hope and a future was waiting for Joseph. Amen,

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