When we left Joseph, he had just been raised from being a slave to being the second most powerful person in all of Egypt. That’s some serious corporate ladder climbing, right? But with the position came great responsibility. Now Joseph had to put the ideas which he had told Pharoah of into action. Joseph was not going to be fumbling around in the dark here. God had put him into all the positions he had been in to train for just this moment. First, he worked in Potiphar’s household. Not a huge undertaking but Joseph learned to manage a household. Then, Joseph went to prison where he became the manager of the prison. Here he learned to manage a much larger “household” (for want of a better word). Now, after thirteen years, Joseph has been positioned to care for an entire nation. To prepare for a time when food would be scarce, if not non-existent.
