3.069 His Master Saw That The Lord was With Him

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.

Hello, my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose you this day whom you'll serve.

Thank you. Thank you. Today is episode 800 on Savory Salt.

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So while we don't have the largest following, while we don't have the millions of people recognizing Savory Salt, congratulations for you for diving in, especially those that tune in day after day. We are in the 99 of podcasts in the world for production, and it shows in your life. At least I hope it shows in your life as you continuing to desire to be better every day and doing your best to take those steps.

Well done and thank you for joining me. I want to make sure I express my gratitude especially to those that have been around for three seasons now. Well done and congratulations.

We're going to take a look inside of our reading this week of Genesis chapters 37 through 41 at another interesting perspective of Joseph inside of his story. It's amazing the stories that have been written about Joseph because really in verse form, there's not a lot into what's happening in Joseph's own internal dialogue. What is his psyche as he's being thrown in a pit by his brothers?

What's his mental attitude while he's being sold off and traded and sent to Egypt, right? We don't really get a lot of the insights, but we do find out at the beginning of Genesis 39 that the Lord was with him and he was prosperous. So we do understand that he's doing the best that he can with what he's got.

He's following the Lord and yet he's losing at life. And I think sometimes all of us at some point in our lives, the Bible says that the Lord is with Joseph and can be with us as well. But it actually, the verse that follows that, that stuck out to me in my reading.

And I want to share it with you today. Our verse today is Genesis 39, verse three, and it says this: "And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand." My friends, when we're being blessed by the Lord, it starts to show to others as well. I want to share an interesting example.

It was kind of a silly one, but it's one that came to mind as I was thinking about this. When I was living in Houston and I was teaching, I had some credible friends that were teacher friends. We all taught together.

We all loved to talk about just all things in life. And they understood me to be a member of the Church. They understood what that meant in terms of the way that I was trying to live my life and the choices I was trying to make for me and my family.

And it got to the point where we'd be having conversations and I'd be like, oh yeah, you guys are always talking about this TV show. I think I want to, like, I should start watching this TV show. And they'd be like, oh, Allen, no, no, no, no, no.

You definitely should not watch that TV show. And as I started to develop these relationships with these friends of mine, they became like my own shield and protection of sorts of things that I should be mindful of in society. They would tell me what shows I should and shouldn't watch, what movies I should and shouldn't go to.

But it was because they saw that I was trying to have a meaningful relationship in my way with Heavenly Father and they wanted to support me in that. My friends, while it seems like we may be facing the world and in contention with the world at all times, I want to emphasize that as we do our best to follow the Lord, others will start to notice that. They may not realize it's about you and your relationship with the Lord that's changing who you are or that's making you appear to be blessed in the ways that you are.

But they will notice. Here, Joseph's master notices and further along in the story, he ends up basically turning over his entire household production to Joseph because of those blessings. So my friends, when it feels like you're losing, stay with the Lord, stay close to Him.

You'll receive blessings. Others will see those blessings as well. And in many cases, others will acknowledge and say, hey, what are you doing in your life?

And you'll have an opportunity to bear testimony of the Lord and His strength that He is to you. That's all for today, my friends. You and I have come here for such a time as this.

Step forward in faith and let's be Savory Salt. We will be here tomorrow and we hope