Joseph and Jesus!

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Joseph was thirty when the king made him governor, and he went everywhere for the king.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was seventeen when his brothers sold him as a slave into Egypt. His life is remembered for two coats, six dreams, and a meteoric rise to power to become the number two man in the country by the time he was thirty. Joseph was the savior of the world when he managed the extensive preparations for a terrible famine. Joseph took no revenge on his brothers when they came and bowed low before him because they needed food for their families.

Joseph was very much a type of Jesus Christ. When you read the story of his life you see lots of parallels between Joseph and Jesus.

When your life story is written will someone who reads it say the same of you? Will they say that your life reminds them of Jesus?

The way to make that happen is to listen every day to the Holy Spirit and do whatever He tells you to do. Then everything you do will be what Jesus would have done if He were in the same situation.

Like Joseph, Jesus was thirty years old when He began His public ministry. Joseph saved the world from starvation, but Jesus saved the world from sin!

Remember only those who ate the food Joseph provided were saved, and only those who make Jesus the Lord of their life will be saved from their sin!