Opening your find
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Opening your find
After the pit experience comes the prison experience. When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. Joseph was innocent and sent to the Egyptian Penitentiary System by the repeated entreaty and false accusation of Potiphar's wife, the Wicked Witch of the West of the Old Testament.
Potiphar's hormonal, raging, menstrual-cramping wife stalked Joseph into a corner; her perfume filled the room while her body was a billboard for lust.
Her eyes locked on Joseph with hypnotic power, her gold-braided arms slithered around his neck, and he went through the blast furnace of accusation as Potiphar's wife's hormone count ran off the charts and screamed, "Rape!" For hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Eventually, Joseph was escorted into the prison by burly Egyptian guards.
The sun in his life sank at high noon and was replaced by a cloud of darkness. They bruised his feet with shackles, and his neck was put in iron. He tried to adjust the shackles on his feet, and he could feel the iron yoke around his neck. The darkness hid the tears that were flushing down his cheeks.
Joseph, in his private, darkest Gethsemane, sat there in the brutal, bewitching hour; he was crushed, and he looked up into the darkness of his cell, lifted his eyes toward a God he could not see, and probably screamed, "God, where are You? Why are You so silent? Why have You forsaken me?
My brothers sold me into the slave market to the Midianites by camel express and deceived my aged father, and he reached the natural conclusion that I was dead. I was sold again in Egypt. I helped Potiphar build his business empire, the epicenter of the universe. I don't have a friend in the world! My legs, life, and neck are in shackles and shambles!
It has never been darker! God, where are You?" This is where Joseph was face-to-face with the devil, in the Deep Blue Sea, the absolute bottom. This is the worst day of Joseph's life; like Job said, "May the day of my birth perish." If you have not been here, you are go
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