Thank you. You ever feel like God has forgotten you?

Maybe it seems like everyone else is moving forward with their lives, but you're stuck in a rut.

If that's the case, you're not alone.

And today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg shares a message of hope about a man who patiently trusted God despite being wrongfully imprisoned for two years.

Now to Genesis chapter 41.

The story we are dealing with is the story of Joseph, the historical record of one man,

and we have discovered to this point a number of things.

First of all, we recognize that he was the object of his father's special interest, hence the multicolored

coat that he was given. He was also the object of his brother's jealous and cruel hatred of him,

and he was at all times and remains the object of God's providential care. We have tracked him as he was sold to a group of

Ishmaelite traders who were heading towards Egypt. He was sold into their captivity as a result

of the intervention of one of the brothers because the early plan had been to do away with him

and his life had been

spared, and he was strapped into the custody of these Ishmaelites and dispatched as a slave to

Egypt. Once in Egypt, he was resold. They presumably turned a profit on him, selling him into the custody

of a gentleman who was a high-ranking

official in the Egyptian government, a man by the name of Potipher. And so this 17-year-old boy

finds himself divorced from all that had represented security to him, removed from his culture,

his language, his people, his family, and now a slave in the

house of someone whose conversation he cannot even understand. But instead of bemoaning his

circumstances, instead of simply crying the blues, we discover that he gives himself wholeheartedly

to making the most of it. And as a result of making

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