Joseph's Life

The Life of joseph has many lessons that we can learn. Honesty, integrity, courage, and many more. However there are 3 main points in joseph’s life that I believe can relate to each and every one of us in here.

Genesis 37:3–11 (KJV (WS))

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Around this time joseph told his brothers about a dream that he had. Joseph and his brothers werre biding sheavs of grain in a field, and while they were binding sheves. Joseph’s sheve stands upright while all of his brothers sheaves gather around it and bow down beofore it. After Jospeh told his brothers this dream it caused them to be very angry with him and as it says in verse 11

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Bible Study Tools gives a good definiton for the word “envy” - “Sin of jealousy over the blessings and achievements of others, especially the spiritual enjoyment and advance of the kingdom of Christ freely and graciously bestowed upon the people of God”