Adversity Will Push You into Greatness.
Allow It.
Eturuvie Erebor.
The interesting thing about adversity is that it can push you into your greatness or destroy you,
depending on your response to it. Adversity pushed Joseph into his greatness more than once. The
first adversity came through his brothers who, in a bid to destroy his dreams, sold him into slavery.
Can you imagine how devastated Joseph felt at that point as he watched his brothers sell him off and
as he was taken away into slavery thinking he would never again set eyes on his father and all the
people he loved dearly? Can you imagine how his heart sank when he arrived in Egypt and was sold
to Potiphar? His pain must have been, without any doubt, beyond description; but in Egypt he would
rise to become one of the most powerful men in the world. Joseph’s greatness was all the time in
Egypt, he did not know it and neither did those who sold him into slavery.
Adversity will come to you if you are
alive; you don’t have to do anything
to deserve it. So even if you are
a nice person who never hurt
anyone, adversity will still come
your way and there is nothing you
can do to stop it. You cannot control
when, where or how it will show
up, you only have control over your
response to it.
The interesting thing about
adversity is that it can push you
into your greatness or destroy
you, depending on your response
to it. Adversity pushed Joseph into
his greatness more than once. The
first adversity came through his
brothers who, in a bid to destroy his
dreams, sold him into slavery. Can
you imagine how devastated Joseph
felt at that point as he watched his
brothers sell him off and as he was
taken away into slavery thinking
he would never again set eyes on
his father and all the people he
loved dearly? Can you imagine how
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his heart sank when he arrived in
Egypt and was sold to Potiphar? His
pain must have been, without any
doubt, beyond description; but in
Egypt he would rise to become one
of the most powerful men in the
world. Joseph’s greatness was all
the time in Egypt, he did not know
it and neither did those who sold
him into slavery. Adversity pushed
him to Egypt to ensure that he did
not become great. However, in the
same place he became great; in the
same place his destiny was fulfilled.
If only adversity knew this, it would
never have sold him into slavery.
Think about it for a moment, if
Joseph’s brothers did not sell him
into slavery how and when would
he have gone to Egypt where his
destiny of grea