When you are treated unfairly, something decisive happens on the inside. Injustice always presents a choice: will you grow bitter—or better?
Joseph had every reason to be resentful. Betrayed by his own brothers, sold into slavery, and later falsely accused, his story could easily have ended in cynicism and hardened anger. Few people would have blamed him. Yet Scripture shows us that Joseph made a different decision. Somewhere along the way, he resolved not to let injustice define him.
That inner posture mattered. Genesis repeatedly tells us that “the LORD was with Joseph.” Not because Joseph’s circumstances were easy — they weren’t — but because Joseph refused to let his suffering sever his trust in God. Even in Potiphar’s house, and later in prison, Joseph remained faithful, diligent, and open-hearted.
I love how Genesis 39 ends:
“The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.”
(Genesis 39:23 ESV)
This verse is striking precisely because it comes at the end of a chapter filled with injustice. Joseph is still in prison. His situation has not yet changed. And yet, God’s presence transforms the prison into a place of fruitfulness.
Scripture never promises that God’s presence will spare us from hardship. But it does promise that hardship does not have the final word. God’s nearness reshapes even dark places into spaces where character is formed, faith is refined, and blessing quietly grows.
Joseph’s circumstances did not define him. God’s favor did.
And the same presence that sustained Joseph is with us today. When we refuse bitterness and choose trust, God can turn even our trials into places of growth, grace, and unexpected fruitfulness. The question is not whether injustice will come—but whether we will allow God to shape us through it.
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