WHAT a word of life! What a weighty word among the many weighty words in the same chapter!
Was Judah against Joseph when he said, “Come, and let us sell him?” (Gen. 38:2727And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. (Genesis 38:27)). “The patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him and delivered him” (Acts 7:9, 109And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, 10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. (Acts 7:9‑10)), and God was for him.
“THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH, and he was a prosperous man” (Gen. 39:22And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. (Genesis 39:2)). Was Potiphar against Joseph, when he sent him to prison? God was for Joseph: God was with Joseph. That which he did, the Lord made it to prosper (v. 23). Neither Judah nor Potiphar can be against Joseph; they help him, through pit and prison, to be next to Pharaoh, over all the land of Egypt.
Was Haman against Mordecai, for plotting as he did? So far from being against that man of God, he labors hard for him, honors him, and is the means of his excellent prosperity, and dieth as a fool; while Mordecai is exalted.
Let us not forget that “WHATSOEVER a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Judah delivered himself a bondman to Joseph, whom he had sold to the Ishmaelites (Gen. 37:28-28; 44:33); and Hainan was hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai (Esther 7:1010So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:10)).
All this is of little worth, if it do not lead us to consider the Haman within, and the covetous Judah within, and “Jesus Christ the Son of God, whose blood cleanseth us from all sin;” and also to lay to heart the plotting against the greater than Joseph or Mordecai—the sorrows of the Cross, and the joys of Jesus at the right hand of God.
“Lo, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE AGE.” (Precious indeed is the record!) “Amen.”