king's work to take care of, and he very likely could not take care of
his own house. All his time and attention were required at the court of
Pharaoh. He had his duty there; he was in high honor; but his own house got
neglected. Very likely he had had other overseers, one slave appointed to
rule the others, and perhaps that one had been unfaithful, or dishonest,
and somehow his house was not as he would have it. So he buys another
slave, just as he had formerly done, but in this case he sees what he had
never seen before. There is something unusual about the man. He walks
so humbly, he serves so faithfully and so lovingly, and withal so
successfully. Potiphar begins to look into the reason for this, and finally
concludes that God is with him.

It is a grand thing to have a man with whom God is, to entrust one's
business to. The heathen realized this, and between the need of his own
house and what he saw in Joseph, he decided to make him overseer. I ask
you, do not these two motives plead most urgently that you should say: "I
will make Jesus master over my whole being?" Your house, Christian, your
spiritual life, the dwelling, the temple of God in your heart,--in what
state is that? Is it not often like the temple of old, in Jerusalem, that
had been defiled and made a house of merchandise, and afterwards a den of
thieves? Your heart, meant to be the home of Jesus, is it not often full
of sin and darkness, full of sadness, full of vexation? You have done your
very best to get it changed, and you have called in the help of man, and
the help of means; you have used every method you could think of for
getting it put right; but it will not come right until He whose it is,
comes in to take charge.

If there is any trouble in your heart, if you are in darkness, or in the
power of sin, I bring to you the Son of God, with the promise that He will
come in and take charge. As Potiphar took Joseph, will you not take Jesus?
Has He not proven Himself worthy to be trusted? Come and say, "Jesus shall
have entire charge; He is worthy." Think not only of His Divine power, but
think of His wonderful love; think of His coming from heaven to save you;
think of His dying on Calvary and shedding His blood out of intense love
for you. Oh, think of it; Christ in heaven loves every one who is given to
Him, and whom He has made a child of God. "Having loved His own that were
in the world, He loved them unto the end."

Must I plead in the name of