Quick Thought on Joseph
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Quick thought on Joseph in Egypt. I think we are meant to see Joseph as a morally ambiguous character. He is brilliant, yes, and we are explicitly told that the Lord was with Joseph when he was enslaved and in prison, but after that, when he rises to his position of power we are never told that again.
I think the reason for that omission is that Joseph forgets where he came from. He marries an Egyptian woman and speaks and dresses like an Egyptian.
He does save his people, yes, but perhaps that could have happened if he didn’t fully acculturate to Egypt.
Centuries and centuries later, Daniel rises to a position of power in a foreign land, but Daniel never forgets his identity.
How do you need to reclaim your identity as part of the people of God today?