Let down badly

Genesis 40:23 "Pharaoh's chief cup-bearer however, forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought." New Living Translation

Let's take another look at Joseph. To get the full picture, it may help to read chapters 40 and 41.
Let's do a recap on Joseph's life:

*  He was hated by his step brothers because of their jealousy towards him for being a favourite.
*  They took him and threw him into a pit, taking his colourful coat, soaking it in sheep's blood
    and telling Jacob, their father, that he must have been killed by a wild beast.
*  Soon after this they sold him into slavery to some travellers. They, sold him on to Potiphar,
    Pharaoh's Chief of Bodyguards, where Joseph worked as a servant in his house.
*  Being quickly promoted to running the whole house, Potiphar's wife, soon became sexually
    interested in Joseph and made passes at him. Joseph refused and she accused him of trying to
    rape her. Joseph was thrown into prison.
*  Joseph interpreted dreams that the Chief Baker and Cup-Bearer had. The Chief Baker was hanged
    and the Cup-Bearer promised to mention Joseph's false imprisonment to Pharaoh. He forgot.
*  It was a full two years until the Cup-Bearer finally remembered him

Wow, that's a lot of stress for a young man to bear. He was only 17 when he arrived in Egypt and he spent 13 years, serving Potiphar and the prison services before he was eventually brought before Pharaoh.

Joseph must have felt let down; forgotten and left on the side lines. Have you ever felt this way?
Anger and frustration must have reigned in his life at times. He was human. Yet on meeting Pharaoh, he never spoke ill of the Cup-Bearer. There was no record of wrongs. He knew God was on his side and that he would eventually be rescued from this situation. He trusted God, wholeheartedly. He never gave up hope, although he would obviously been tempted to feel sorry for himself.

Memories and thoughts of the past would probably have been uppermost in his thinking. If we listen to our negative thought for too long, we begin to believe them and then we're on a journey to nowhere. Re-train your thoughts to think healthy things. Philippians 4:8.

Meditate on some of the things that Joseph went through. Probably the hard ones would have been being severely hurt by his family - rejected. Also having his hopes dashed by someone he trusted forgetting about him.

Have you been rejected and had your hopes shattered? Have you been hurt by someone very close to you? God understands and wants to heal the wounds of all the suffering. He is the only one that can be totally trusted. Jesus will NEVER let you down, reject you or forget about you.
Why not draw close to Him today and share your heart with Him. He's waiting!