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by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
A
siege is a blockade which is usually mounted by the opposition; which could be
spiritual, physical, mental, financial, emotional, and marital and is designed
to separate you from the resources you require to succeed so that in
frustration and despair, you surrender to the opposition. While sieges have always been a part of
history and have always been tactically deployed by the military and rebel
groups to wear down the determination of the opposition to succeed, they are
still very much in use day, significantly in diverse modes. They are also used
in the realm of the spirit to stop the flow of God’s blessings to His people as
evidenced in the siege laid by the prince of Persia against Gabriel enroute to
deliver God’s blessings to Daniel.
Also,
when the morally bankrupt wife of Potiphar daily harassed Joseph sexually, she
actually laid a siege on his mental processes, trying his emotions severely;
hoping to wear down his resistance to sin so that Joseph would sin against God
and Potiphar. And when eventually she
discovered that the siege was a waste of her time as it had no effect on Jacob,
she deployed another strategy; lay a physical siege on the young man. If his
emotions were cast in stone, was his body also cast in stone and dead to
stimuli from a morally bankrupt woman probably schooled in seducing young men?
Fortunately,
her strategy failed for Joseph’s body was also divinely immune to sexual
immorality. Joseph would rather run out of the house naked than defile his body
which was the temple of God. Please read 1st Corinthians Chapter 6
verses 13 to 20 and Genesis Chapter 36. Though Joseph was punished with an
unjust prison sentence for what he did not do, it was just as well and good
that he did not capitulate to the satanic siege laid by Potiphar’s wife because
that siege would have kept Joseph in perpetual servitude in Potiphar’s house. One second of sin with
Potiphar’s wife would have altered the destiny of Joseph drastically. Rather
than become Prime Minister in Egypt, he would have remained the houseboy he was
in Potiphar’s house. Why, you may ask?
Joseph
would never have had the opportunity of meeting the baker and the butler of
Pharaoh; which also meant that he would not have interpreted their dreams; the
basis for which Mr. Butler recommended Joseph to Pharaoh.
Beloved,
some sieges often appear to be unbearable especially the ones designed to
dilute, pollute and alter a person’s faith in God. The long term consequences
of such sieges may not be apparent. For instance, if Joseph had not learnt to
respect and fear God all his life and had capitulated to the satanic request of
the morally bankrupt woman, no one would probably know of their immoral
liaison. But God Who sees everything would know and the devil who masterminded
the situation would know and hold it against Joseph and probably daily accuse
Joseph before God until Joseph was judged by God and punished accordingly. On
the other hand, the devil could choose to continue to use his agent, Potiphar’s
wife against Joseph as she would always use the fact that he slept with her
against him so that they would both live in perpetual sin of immorality with no
exit door in sight for Joseph. That way, Joseph would be in perpetual bondage
of sex slavery to Potiphar’s wife until she probably got tired of him; that is
if she ever would and discard him humiliated and bereft of the awesome Presence
of God that was responsible for his uplifting. What then would have been
Joseph’s chances of standing tall above his siblings and peers? Would their
words not have come to pass – let’s see what would become of his dream? But to
the glory of God Who always midwives his divine plans and purposes in His own
way and timing, Joseph did not sin against God. Though he was imprisoned,
everything worked together for good for Joseph. In the fullness of time, God
elevated him and made him the Prime Minister in Egypt.
Beloved,
no siege is too difficult for you to overcome. May God grant you the grace and
wisdom to overcome whatever siege you are experiencing now in the mighty name
of Jesus Christ.
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