Category: Be Conscious Of Him

“1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the  Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. 

2 The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a  successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 

3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand.

4 So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he  made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority.

5 So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the LORD blessed  the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had in the house and in the field.

6 Thus he left all that  he had in Joseph’s hand, and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

7 And it came to pass after these things that his master’s wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.”

8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand.”

The consciousness of God being present around us sustain His presence. God desire to remain in contact with us every moment in order to enjoy Communion with us. He wants a relationship like that of the Garden of Eden with the first man and woman. But when we are not conscious of His presence around us, it hurts Him.

Joseph’s secret of God’s presence was the consciousness of God being present. Even in a foreign land he maintain that consciousness of God’s presence. The scripture talked of how his master identify God’s presence around him until he made Joseph the ruler of his home. This consciousness was made know when the mother of the house made a request of laying with Him and Joseph made it known to her that, He can’t do such thing because of God’s presence, Gen. 39:9. This landed him in the prison but he still retained God’s presence with him.

What is that act that send away the presence of God? What is the pleasure that takes over God’s presence from you? God want His presence to be made known to others through us. He wants a relationship with us in order to make us the real person He has predestined us to be. How conscious are we of the presence of God? Are we sending him away or retaining him with our words, action and thought? God knows about those temptation, He just want to know how we respond to them. God is always around us, let us stop sending Him away.