We need to keep our eyes on Him - not the other way around

Life continues to change. Ups and downs, highs and lows, good and bad.  In all of it, God is immutable. Good thing for us.  It is interesting that as life happens, we kind of expect God answer our questions or explain what is going on.  We expect Him to keep His eyes on us rather than the other way around.  We expect God to give an explanation, rather than us trusting that He loves us.  It is a strange thing.  I think about Joseph being tossed into a pit, bought by slave traders, doing time in jail, resisting the temptation of his bosses' wife and never saying, hey God - why are you doing this?  Rather, he kept his head.  Of course he was not aware of the big picture that God was going to use him to save Jacob, who became Israel, who later became the nation that we have today.  Apparently God had a bigger plan.  Joseph was smart.  He kept His head, let God exalt him at times and did not allow himself to be distracted.
I want to be more like that.  I think we would all benefit if we were all more like that.

Genesis 37:12 ...

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