Sometimes one may suffer for right doing but the Bible has promised us great rewards irrespective of the reactions to our actions.

Better to rot in prison than to sin against God,Joseph a young man with great dreams out of envy was sold as a slave into a foreign land,left to die,God rescued him,here is Portiphar looking for slaves to buy,he spotted this young lad and thought within himself that it would be a wonderful decision to have this boy as a slave,time proved to Portiphar that Joseph could not only be trusted with responsibilities but the very things that pertain to Portiphars life.

Scriptures could record that Joseph was so faithful that Portiphar knew not what he had except his daily bread because he had a faithful man.

It’s like having $500 millions dollars in business and you don’t bother yourself with account reportings nor are you afraid that this man may one day murder you or claim your company.

He was so so faithful,one day the devil had had enough of this faithful man,he arranged that he been tempted with an offer many today won’t reject,Portiphar’s wife herself offered him the opportunity to sin against his God, he bluntly refused but we all know the devil is persistent in his ways.

It was one sunny afternoon,everyone at the house have gone about their daily business,Joseph had just returned home from the field,this woman grabbed him by the clothes and demanded Joseph had intimate relations with her,the God fearing Joseph saw that this woman will not comply despite he begging her  that this was a sin against God,he had no option to flee the house with no clothes on him.

Better to lose your clothes than lose your salvation.

This woman would not let go,she lied that innocent Joseph had attempted to rape her,she even showed whoever cared to listen an evidence of Joseph clothes,how could anyone believe the testimony of Joseph when his very clothes were in the hand of this woman.

They had no CCTV cameras in their day but Heaven,Joseph and Portiphar’s wife knew what happened,though Portiphar found it hard to believe the story,he still had to act because it was his very wife who was been supposedly “victimised” and who is also testifying.

Now,Joseph stripped of his position,authority and freedom,is confined to the prison with other fellows,as God would have it,the latter years of Joseph saw him move from that prison to the palace in a single day.

He was appointed the second in command after Pharoah,he forgave his brother and reunited with the whole family,indeed God is great.

Many today are in persecution,prison because they choose righteousness.

Many are unemployed today because they choose the path of righteousness.

Oh how many saints were fed to lions in days gone by because they refuse to deny their God. Once a disciple of the beloved apostle,John was arrested and asked to deny Christ,he replied “Sirs,i have known this Jesus for over 85 years,He has not done me ill,how can i deny him”,he refused and was burnt.

Many may not suffer such cruel treatments but may suffer dire consequences for their stand of rightteousness.

But while should a man choose to suffer for his believe,the answer is simple,they have believed a God,an eternity with him and how transient life is,they have come to terms with the vanity of living for this world and resolved by God’s help to live for the country whose builder and maker is God,these men know Christ by actual experience and not feelings,they breath,think and live for eternity. They have seen and heard of the horrors of an eternal hell and the comforts of an eternal heaven with God,therefore at any cost,they have resolved to enter the kindgom of God.

They rather die than sin against God,they must enter the kinddom through much tribulations

Act14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

This is what sums their life

Heb 11:33  Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Heb 11:34  Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Heb 11:35  Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

Heb 11:36  And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Heb 11:37  They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

Heb 11:38  (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.