Joseph is imprisoned falsely because Potiphar's wife accused him of assaulting her (he refused her). In prison, the text says the Lord was with him. He finds favor with the jailer. He's given charge of the other prisoners.
I was incarcerated for three years, and I held onto this verse. God was with me in prison, not bringing me home, not preventing injustice, but present. I found people who treated me with dignity. I found work. I found something like purpose.
The verse doesn't make imprisonment good or just. It doesn't explain it away. It just insists that even in that system, even in that darkness, God's presence was possible. That saved my sanity.
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