Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

For more digital content to

feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's

devotional. Episode seven, God's Ways. Here we go. Hey, welcome to the podcast. Mike Bro, and together we are on a

journey of walking with God and learning how he speaks and

shapes and leads the lives of people like us. And we're currently living in the story of a young

guy named Joseph. And you can find the story starting in Genesis 37. And we learned last episode

that God gave him a vision, a dream of his future, that he would be someday the

ruler of a nation. The problem was, he bragged about it in front of his brothers, who

already resented him for being his dad's favorite kid. So some of you know the story, Joseph's

brothers, they hated his guts, and they're out in the pastures of Dothan. They're tending sheep.

And the father sends little brother Joseph on a trip to check on them, and it takes

some much leaded supplies out to the brothers.

Well, they see him coming over the hill.

And he's wearing his dad likes me better than you, Jacket, and they're not happy.

They're not excited.

Nobody's saying, hey, what's up, little bro? Their hate,

their resentment, their jealousy, their rage begins to burn within them and they say to each other,

you know what? When he gets here, why don't we just kill him? And so they devise a plan. They find a

pit, an empty cistern is there, and they say, when he gets here, let's just throw him in the pit, an empty cistern that's there, and they say, when he gets here, let's just throw him in the pit, and then we'll figure out what we're going to do to him. We'll just rip that stinking robe

...