We all know the story of Joseph and his brothers who planned on killing him and then decide to beat him, put him in a pit and sell him into slavery over a dream and the love his father had towards him by making him a coat of many colours. All because of jealousy and hatred. Joseph was sold to a merchant who brought him to Egypt and sold him as a slave to Potiphar the captain of the pharaoh guard. Even though God was with Joseph his father Jacob sins followed him, that hereditary behavior of trickery. But unlike Jacob his father the trickster and his grandmother Rebecca, Joseph was honest, respectable and a righteous man. Nothing like his brothers who follows the pathology of their heritage of trickery and sin. Just the thought of their plan to not only to hurt Joseph, but totally disregard how it would effect their aging father knowing how much he loves Joseph.

Poor Joseph to be born into such a family. Joseph is proof that bad things happens to good people sometimes just because of your lineage. You can be a very good person and your goodness not even known to you is what’s needed to break a hereditary curse in your family. And guess what? You’re the chosen one everyone hates and they have no reasons to, cause you’re loving and compassionate. Joseph is also proof that your own will reject you, but strangers can except and love you more as one of them.

Joseph brothers behavior and attitude towards him was identical to that of Cain to Abel. The only difference is God intercede that they couldn’t take his life. Today as a Christian if you can’t say,” I am my brother’s keeper” then you are not on the Lord side. David who killed Goliath I believed was treated just like Joseph by his brothers, especially after he’d killed Goliath. David wouldn’t turn to Jonathan or even Bathsheba if he had a strong relationship within his own family.

Joseph broke the family hereditary and generational curse by continuing to do good regardless of what he had to endure for no reason at all. He didn’t do anything wrong by being sincerely truthful and honest to his family about a dream he had and to his slave masters, be respectable and noble. But his noble behavior made his master wife loved and amired him. So she lied on him to her husband because he rejected her sexual advancement and was thrown in jail. Joseph was like the first Job, God’s faithful servant, keeping the Faith regardless. Joseph is not only a man of great character the one thing we don’t associate Joseph with in his story is that he was also a prophet of the Lord. And like the rainbow his coat of many colours made for him by his father was prophetic as to say he was the promised one to deliver not just his family, but many from  famine that was going to affect their lives and to serve in God’s purpose for His chosen people. He even changed the mindset of his wicked brothers.

Scripture declares, ” let your light so shine before man, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven” Matthew 5:16. The cost for your light shinning brightly is a price only through God you can pay. If it had not been for the Lord who was on your side there’s no way you can stand on your own shinning brightly. If man can only get it, the light belongs to God and not ours. As Christian we do nothing of ourselves like Jesus said, ” the son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the father do; for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the son likewise.” After all we are God’s creation, created in his image, fearfully and wonderfully made. So instead of being filled with jealousy and hating someone for being blessed and highly favoured go to God, that’s a choice we have and is given. Pour out you complain and fight with him about it.