Joseph's silver cup was the one he used for divination?! Was this something he said to keep the brothers from understanding that his God was their God? Or was it true? Was Joseph lying about his faith in God, or had his faith in God become corrupted by the local religious practices? I'm not impressed by either possible answer.
It's easier to "be with God," as the ealier chapters in this story put it, when you have nothing to lose. It's easier to be faithful when you're in prison or enslaved. Power complicates things. The story has stopped telling us that God was with Joseph - and has instead started telling us how Joseph himself manipulated events for his own revenge and his own reunions....God is not the primary actor in this story at this point.
And this leads me back to one of my old dilemmas - my desire to have control over my own story. Walking the line of both having free will and pleasing God is still so difficult for me.
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