I'm I'm Everybody loves a good rags to riches story, but what if that was your story? Would you be able to keep your pride in check if life suddenly took a radical turn for the better?

Today on Truth for Life,

Alastair Begg traces one man's dramatic rise

from the pit to the pinnacle

and considers how he avoided the dangers of pride.

Genesis 41, if you turn to it with me.

And, Father, we pray that as we turn to your word, the spirit might be our teacher,

that our hearts may be open to your truth,

and that our lives may be transformed by it for Jesus' sake. Amen.

We resume our studies at around verse 37, and we discover that Joseph gets a new job, a new

name, a wife, and two sons. Every so often in magazines you read of the things that create the most stress in your life.

And here he got a whole bundle of them rolled into a very short period of time. And as we will see,

he comes out remarkably well. Some 13 years have passed since as a teenager he had worn that multicolored coat, and now here he is still a

young man, and yet raised to a position of unique usefulness in a country where he lives as a resident

alien. And when we view the unfolding saga of his life, and particularly this section before us now,

you will recall that this particular period in Joseph's pilgrimage began with Pharaoh's

troubling dreams. And in Pharaoh's dreaming, he discovered that there was no one who could answer his dilemma,

saved Joseph, and God made it possible for Joseph to grant an interpretation.

And then Joseph had followed up the word of interpretation with a suggested plan of action.

And the plan of action was responded to as verse 37 makes clear. It was obviously good,

clearly necessary, and enthusiastically received, not only by Pharaoh, but also by his officials.

Now, the key to the implementation of this plan, as with any plan, is leadership.

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