A young boy named Bill was
dropped off by his mom who said; “Wait here, I’ll be right back.” Three days
later, he’s still waiting for his mom to return; she never showed up. Would
Bill become a misfit, a misguided missile with a fiery, explosive future?
Would he survive being deserted? Would
he grow up with anger, bitterness and resentment? Would he end up like 70% of
young boys who grow up without a father, ending up in prison? We’ll pick up with
Bill’s story in a moment.
Joseph was one of twelve brothers in the house of Jacob, the
first born son with Jacob’s wife Rachael. He was next to last in age of all
Jacob’s sons, the one that Jacob was most fond of. Joseph grew up believing
that God had given him a dream that would lead him to his destiny. At
the age of 17, his brothers got “nauseated” hearing about his dreams so they threw
him into a pit. Had it not been for Reuben, they would have killed him. The
brothers said, “Let’s take some blood from an animal, put it on his coat and
dad will think a wild beast killed him.” Afterwards, they took their brother
and sold him to a caravan of Ishmaelites who took him down to Egypt, sold him
and dropped him off as a slave.
Would Joseph get bitter and angry from the rejection of his
brothers? Would he question God’s plan, the dream and destiny for his life?
Would he develop a mentality that, “I must not be worth much because God dropped
me off in a foreign land? Will anything ever become of my dream?”
For the next 13 years Joseph would take a roller coaster
ride of first being falsely accused of sexual impropriety with Potiphar’s wife.
He was locked up in a dark dungeon questioning, “Why me, Lord; what is this all
about?” “Why would God allow me to face such a horrible chapter in my life?”
Would he be labeled the rest of his days as a misfit, a mistaken, misguided missile?
Tomahawk missiles today can be guided by technology that can
lead them a thousand miles away to their destination. If a man can brilliantly
design a guided missile that incredibly, why would we question the God
of this universe to guide His vessels that He’s designed for his own deployment?
Later Joseph would be used to interpret the dream of King Pharaoh that a famine
was on the way. Joseph was in the right place to be promoted to become the
Prime Minister of Egypt, all because he refused to get angry with his brothers
and his God.
He could have spent years
wallowing in self-pity: “Woe is me; why me Lord; what did I ever do to deserve
this?” Instead, he chose to believe that it was God who dropped him off for
deployment. God was more interested in his deployment than his difficulty, his
calling than his comfort, his cause than his convenience and his mission than
his mess! So which will you choose
to dwell on? Your mess, your difficulty, your comfort or your convenience? Stay
focused there and you will miss your dream and destiny. Focus on your deployment
and you’ll possibly impact thousands like Joseph did.
Yes, Bill also chose to say like
Joseph, “What the Devil meant for evil, God meant for good.” Today, Bill Wilson
spends his life serving God, helping little boys and girls find Christ and
their own destiny. Today, he reaches more than ten thousand kids per week as a
pastor in New York City. So ask yourself, “Will I dwell on being dropped or
believe it’s really just my deployment from Heaven?”
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