Ceasing the Day, Any Day!

Gen 39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph and blessed him, so that the jailer was pleased with him.

Gen 39:22 He put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and made him responsible for everything that was done in the prison.

Gen 39:23 The jailer did not have to look after anything for which Joseph was responsible, because the LORD was with Joseph and made him succeed in everything he did.

Now here is a true example of ceasing the day. Joseph had all the reason in the world to give up being good at this point. He was stuck in jail with no vision of purpose. To think that his time here was precious, would seem ridiculous. And yet we see that Joseph continued to use every moment to his advantage, by living to the best of his abilities. While other prisoners were probably complaining, allowing their thoughts to waste hours in worthless circular thinking, Joseph used his time to look for opportunities to impress the jailer.

God blessed him and he soon was in charge of the whole prison.

Don’t wait for your circumstances to change, before you start grabbing the opportunities! Use every moment you have, find an opportunity, even if it seems insignificantly small, and work it. Put every moment you have into developing that opportunity, and two, more important, things will happen:

1. You will develop not only the opportunity, but, more importantly, yourself.
   
   
2. You will, most likely somewhere along the line impress someone that God will use to create a bigger opportunity for you. And then you just repeat the process.