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When We Feel Forgotten.

The story is about a man who was gifted from God to interpret dreams. Jealousy from his brothers caused them to betray him and get rid of him. He was found for dead and brought to Pharos’s dungen

After being forgotten by the cupbearer, Joseph struggled with the temptation of becoming impatient and complaining . When the devil saw this, he attacked Joseph with even more fiery arrows. Christ himself felt these arrows when the Devil tempted him. “ If you are the Son of God, tell those stones to become loaves of bread. (Mt. 4:3) In the same way, the devil might have said to Joseph “Go ahead and continue your miserable struggle. You know that prayers are useless. You cry to God and believe in him but all for nothing. You had hoped that God would free you and restore your honor because you interpreted the chief cupbearer’s dream. We’ll let God save you if he feels like it! The devil continued to torment Joseph with his fiery arrows even though Joseph was weak and wounded.

When faithful people are happy and when they sing, “the Lord is my strength and my song (PS. 118:14) the devil stays far away from them. All complaining and impatience soon end. As long as believers praise and thank God, then temptation, sadness, and unbelief, disappear. Heaven is opened wide and hell is shut with words like these. “I will thank the Lord at all times. My mouth will always praise him (Ps. 34:1

But as soon as we stop praising God, miserable, lonely, sad thoughts return. That’s what happened to Joseph when he remembered how his brothers had sold him. They were at home having a good time while he was lying in prison, tied up and miserable. This is how the devil works. When the water becomes troubled, he likes to fish. He uses these opportunities to tempt people to abandon their faith and give up in despair.