something is happening.

I feel like I’ve been in a season of Thursdays. Meaning, nothing particularly noteworthy seems to be happening. I’m just doing what’s in front of me to do. Doing my job. Going to church. Serving my community. Making sure I have groceries. Trying my best to love the people around me and not be too caught up in my own task list.

Part of me feels like I could be or should be doing more or better. And then the other part of me remembers how Genesis 41 casually begins with, “When two full years had passed…”

In Genesis 40, Joseph was in prison with Pharaoh’s cupbearer and interpreted his dream that prophesied he would be restored to his position as cupbearer. Joseph asked that once that actually happened and he was with Pharaoh again, if the cupbearer would mention him to Pharaoh and help him get out of prison.

It happened exactly as Joseph had said. But the cupbearer forgot all about him. And two full years passed.

We don’t know what Joseph did every day for two years. Probably because nothing particularly noteworthy happened. But I think those days still mattered, even if we don’t know the details, because he went on to get out of prison and become Pharaoh’s second-in-command, in charge of the whole land. And you don’t just go from “nothing” to second-in-command overnight.

It takes years. A lot of Thursdays. A lot of just doing what’s in front of you to do, or staying in a place you know you’re not destined to stay in. It might feel like nothing. Or like a waste. But the time and the season still matter, even if I don’t feel like anything particularly noteworthy is happening.

Something is happening. Not because I’m doing something in particular or even because I can see that it is. Something is happening because God’s word has been set in motion, and His word does not return empty.

It was true for Joseph. It’s true for me. And it’s true for you.

Maybe something miraculous will happen today, or maybe it’s just another Thursday. Either way, let’s hang onto God’s word.

The power of God is in you, even on a Thursday.