Title: Praise of Joseph / Genesis 39:20:23
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Bible: Genesis 39:20:23
Subject: Praise of Joseph
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1. Praise
A good singer can be said to be a person who not only produces high and low notes well, but also puts emotion into it appropriately, and lowers the parts that need to be raised and lowered. In a nutshell, it can be said that he is a person of good harmony.
Sometimes when I listen to music, I feel that it is really strange. How can you not be moved when you hear the words, but the same thing is that it is strange that listening to music gives you emotion and brings joy to your heart. Maybe it's because this is the expression of life. What we often say is alive can also be said to have sound. The sea, which can be said to be a real sea even by looking at the waves, is that the sea, where the waves rise and the water sways vigorously, looks like a living sea, and the wind and fire appear to be alive. In this way, I wonder if music breathes life into inanimate things like the waves crashing in the calm sea. That is why, when we listen to music, we feel life, our heart rejoices, and we feel beauty. Therefore, it can be said that the most beautiful thing is not simply stagnant, but active and alive. However, we are talking about beautiful sounds that come out when high and low notes are produced, and when long notes and short notes are produced, and form harmony, rather than random noise.
2. Joseph's Praise
In the Word of God today, there are people who sing well. It is not just a song sung by mouth, but a song sung by life, a song sung by life, the best singers are coming out. He was a young man named Joseph. He has reached the point where he can't sing all the beautiful songs, but he's the one who sang the most beautiful songs. At the age of 17, he suffered the pain of being abandoned by his brothers, and in today's text he was sold to Potiphar's house in Egypt, but he was imprisoned by Potiphar's wife for tempting and plotting. At this point, most people will give up on their lives and will have the heart to live as they please with the feeling that everything is over, but today, even in that prison, Joseph received approval from the chief of the jail and took care of everything in the prison. It's nice to be able to see them create some really amazing things to take on.
If we compare it to the music we sing, it means that, despite the fact that we cannot produce the correct notes and we are not in the environment and mood to sing, we have accurately produced a beautiful voice and found the correct note. In other words, Joseph was betrayed and sold as a slave, and in a situation where he had no choice but to say that he is the Son of God, that God protects him, that neither his parents nor his brothers believe in anyone in this world, he is not shaken at all. that he was fulfilling his duty as a person of At that time, the Word of God testifies that God blessed Joseph in everything he did.
3. Our praise
Sometimes when we look back on our lives, we often find ourselves wondering, why am I like this, why am I like this, like a dissonance? Why am I in pain like this, why am I the only one who has to do this? Why am I the only one who can't do it well? There will be times when we are faced with a lot of problems in life, and we will fall into the question of why our life is not like others. Why can't I have faith? Why can't I study like this? There will be times when I wonder if my friends don't have anything, like the troubles of a person who can't sing well.
Today, the Lord is telling us the secret through Joseph, who sang the song of life that we couldn't sing well.
In verses 21 and 23, it is written that it is because the Lord was with us, so we can see that the secret to the praise of Joseph's beautiful life is his life with God. The hand of God who was with Joseph behind Joseph gave us strength and courage to change our songs that were not beautiful by giving us strength and courage when we were tired and we could no longer sing the songs of our lives beautifully. is.
He changed the sad song of life of betrayal and abandonment into a beautiful song of forgiveness and success, and he changed the song of curse and hate into a beautiful song of blessing and love.
4. The song of our life
Even today, we know that we are faced with a moment in our lives when we have to sing a song that is not as beautiful as the one that Joseph suffered. They say that they are ostracized by their friends, have difficulties in their religious life, and experience disappointment from their teachers and parents while studying. However, today our Lord is saying that even though different sounds of life come to us through Joseph's life, we should not call those sounds separately and make them into an unbeautiful life, but change them to be beautiful like Joseph.
Sometimes I see some friends who give up saying they can't do it, even when it's a little hard, like someone who says they can't sing high notes. Just like harmonizing the songs accurately, the beautiful life that God wants is also a good way to digest the difficult music score.
That is why Hebrews 13:14-15 says:
“Therefore, let us always offer to God a sacrifice of praise through Jesus, which is the fruit of our lips that testify of His name, but do not forget to do good and to share with one another, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” .
I pray that through the praise of the beautiful life that does our good, the praise of our dissonant, unbeautiful life becomes beautiful, and that the home, school, and even the world become a life in which the beautiful song of life is sung.