(Read Genesis 37:20-36)
To the brothers who sold him, it was the end of Joseph and his dreams – the end of his story. For the father who loved him, the thought of him being devoured by wild beast must have been a nightmare that refuse to go away, and perhaps his own guilt at sending joseph that day may have also haunted him. Each of them thought in terms of the end. But God had other plans. What appeared to be the intended end was the beginning of the realization of Joseph’s dreams, the beginning of his rise to the top.
Sometimes what seems like the way down, is God’s way up. Sometimes what seems like rock bottom is his staircase to the top. Sometimes what looks like the end is just the beginning. Just remember he said, ‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts’ (Isaiah 55:8-9). When man thinks one way, God thinks other, and the two are always on the opposite end of the spectrum.