Young Joseph shared his dreams with his family—dreams that appeared to say his family would one day bow down to him. That didn’t sit well with the family, especially Joseph’s older brothers. After Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, he must have wondered about the dreams himself. Psalm 105:18-19 poetically says, “His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; until what he had said came to pass, the word of the Lordtested him.” At his lowest point—a shackled slave and wrongfully imprisoned in a foreign land, surely Joseph had to wonder about God’s promises. But he never gave up on the Lord, and the Lord’s Word proved true in the end.
Satan uses hardships and trials to discourage us and tempts us to doubt God’s promises. But don’t let him win. Read God’s Word, understand God’s promises, and trust the Lord. Life will test us, but God’s promises will be fulfilled if we are faithful!