Comment: Before a company promotes an employee to a particular position, it ensures that the person is able to handle the added responsibilities by screening the employee with interviews and tests and giving them training or on-the-job experience. The instance of Joseph in the land of ancient Egypt as is in the text for today is a familiar one. Having gotten some glimpse about the spiritual worth of Joseph who had been in prison, Pharaoh stated: “Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou… See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt… I am Pharoah, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” – Genesis 41:40-44.
Other instances of servants of God who were promoted on merit by the grace of God, were Daniel in the kingdom of Persia, (Daniel 6); Mordecai, (Esther chapters 2 – 8); etc. There is nothing wrong in wishing to be promoted in our endeavours but the promotion must be on the basis of what one essentially is and what one truly deserves: it must be at the instance of God Almighty Who uses men to make it materialize in His own time. The Holy Bible says: “For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory,: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” – Psalm 84:11.