[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1012":3},"OCTOBER 12\r\nAnd Joseph's master took him, and put him into a prison... But\r\nJehovah was with Joseph... and that which he did, Jehovah made it to prosper (Gen. 39.20-23).\r\nWhen God lets us go to prison because we have been serving Him, and\r\ngoes there with us, prison is about the most blessed place in the\r\nworld that we could be in. Joseph seems to have known that He did not sulk and grow discouraged and rebellious because \"everything\r\n\r\nwas against him.\" If he had, the prison keeper would never have\r\ntrusted him so. Joseph does not even seem to have pitied himself.\r\nLet us remember that if self-pity is allowed to set in, that is the\r\nend of us-until it is cast utterly from us. Joseph just turned over\r\neverything in joyous trust to God, and so the keeper of the prison\r\nturned over everything to Joseph. Lord Jesus, when the prison doors close in on me, keep me trusting, and keep my joyfull and\r\nabounding. Prosper Thy work through me in prison: even there, make me free indeed. --Selected.\r\nA little bird I am,\r\nShut from the fields of air,\r\nAnd in my cage I sit and sing   To Him who placed me there; Well pleased a prisoner to be,\r\nBecause, My God, it pleaseth Thee.\r\nMy cage confines me round, Abroad I cannot fly,\r\nBut though my wing is closely bound, My soul is at liberty;\r\nFor prison walls cannot control\r\nThe flight, the freedom of the soul.\r\nI have learnt to love the darkness of sorrow; there you see the brightness of His face. --Madame Guyon.",1783499793938]