May 25, 2010 – Genesis 39

Just thinking about how the Lord was treating Joseph and what to take from that.  We know already that the Lord has plans for Joseph and those plans require putting him in a position of power, so He needed to work him into that type of situation.  I think sometimes we can read something like this and relate it in a judgmental way.  That person is well off, so God loves them more and that person isn’t doing well in life so they must not be in God’s good graces.  I believe some people are better off in life than others, but I think it is for a reason.  Fr., in his homily today, talked about being rich and the difficulty it means getting into heaven.  It is not the being rich, but what you do with it or how you behave.  God puts people in good fortune to see if they act grateful, generous, and charitable or if they are greedy, and only seek more.  We are always being put in situations where we must make chooses.  Don’t let our good fortune in one thing lead us down a path of greed or arrogance but one of charitable thanksgiving.