"Better Than I": Post #2

         Just last week, my roommates and I watched the movie Joseph: King of Dreams on Netflix. I grew up listening to the soundtrack to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond, so the story of the prophet Joseph has always been one of my favorites. In the movie (as well as in the Bible), Joseph is first thrown into a pit by his twelve jealous older brothers, and then sold into Egypt as a slave. Joseph begins to work for a man named Potiphar, and is actually promoted to work in his household, until one day Potiphar's wife gets a little too friendly: "And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out" (Genesis 39:12). Joseph is unjustly cast into prison and left there to rot. While in prison, Joseph meets Pharaoh's butler and baker, and is able to interpret their dreams. The baker is sentenced to die, as Joseph had predicted, but the butler is set free, as Joseph also predicted. Joseph pleads with the butler to please mention his gift to Pharaoh. Joseph is then left all alone in prison, starving and alone. In the movie, Joseph climbs his dungeon wall towards a small opening in the ceiling and yells angrily at God, asking why He has abandoned him. Joseph grabs at a root growing out of the wall, which gives way and Joseph falls back to the rock hard bottom. It isn't until Joseph hits rock-bottom that he sees that the root he yanked out is actually a tiny tree with a single green leaf growing from one of the tiniest branches. The music begins as Joseph then plants that tiny sapling in a crack in his prison. The song that plays is called, "You Know Better Than I," and I thought the lyrics were so good that I'd just include the video right here.
          So, it turns out that God had a plan for Joseph all along. Joseph ends up saving his entire family from a famine and brings them to live with him in Egypt, although Joseph couldn't see or understand that when his brothers sold him for silver, or while he sat starving in prison.
          What I learn from the story of Joseph is that God knows better than us what we need, and who needs us. He knows better than us who we can become. We may not understand the trials we are going through, but God does. I hope we can trust in the Lord's timing, trust that He loves us and only wants to help us become like Him. I hope we can remember that "He knows Better" than us. 

Here's the video with the lyrics to "You Know Better Than I." Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oL6HlzQZLo