. The training of the Chosen people. Mans Plans and Gods Purpose 23 way for his advancement. But Pharoah had a betterexplanation than our chapter of accidents to accountfor Josephs success (Gen. 41: 38). The king sawthat here was a man who was directed and used by aHigher Power. It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps(Jer. 10: 23). Behind all our plans and activitiesthere are the purposes of God. The very things thatseem to thwart those purposes, like the evil devicesof Josephs brothers, He can overrule and make themimportant steps toward the fulfilment of His aims;the trivial accide
. The training of the Chosen people. Mans Plans and Gods Purpose 23 way for his advancement. But Pharoah had a betterexplanation than our chapter of accidents to accountfor Josephs success (Gen. 41: 38). The king sawthat here was a man who was directed and used by aHigher Power. It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps(Jer. 10: 23). Behind all our plans and activitiesthere are the purposes of God. The very things thatseem to thwart those purposes, like the evil devicesof Josephs brothers, He can overrule and make themimportant steps toward the fulfilment of His aims;the trivial accidental circumstance, utterly beyond hu-man control, may play like a wheel into His plan; andthe best and noblest efforts of man may receive fromtheir association with His purpose a significance andinfluence wholly incalculable by the wit of man. Israel, as we know, often looked back upon the ca-reer of Joseph with gratitude and wonder. His lifestill interprets to us the workings of Providence inthe experience of men and of nations. \y. Egyptian Human-headed Sphinx. 24 Old Testament History CHAPTER VIII. THE RESOURCES OF GOD. Ex. 1 : 8—4 : 31. For several centuries the descendants of Abrahamfound just the conditions in Egypt that enabled thetribe to develop steadily and happily into the length the time came for this people to begin anindependent existence. It would have been whollyimpossible for the most studious observer to antici-pate the method by which God would accomplishthis end. There was nothing in the situation, as ithad developed during hundreds of years, to lead oneto suppose that the future of Israel was not inextri-cably bound to Egypt. But the resources of God arenot limited by the forecasts of men. Unexpected andsimple means are at the disposal of God to reversethe calculations of the wisest men. God broughtIsrael out of Egypt—brought the nation to birth—through the agency of two men, who did not dream,until the last moment, when the clock of destiny
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