Serving — Sleeping — Singing

Three men were in prison: (1.) Joseph serving, Gen. 39; (2.) Peter sleeping, Acts 12:6; (3.) Paul praying and singing, Acts 16:25.
You will notice the difference between Joseph in Gen. 39:1 who was brought down to Egypt, and Abram in Gen. 12:10 who went down into Egypt. Abram in the time of famine lost confidence in God and went down to Egypt to escape the famine. Abram did not have the mind of God in this. It was very different with Joseph who was brought down to Egypt. We see in this God working out His counsels and purposes. This is what God is doing today.
In many ways Joseph is a most beautiful type of the Lord Jesus. In this 39th chapter of Genesis he is in prison and is thus a type of the Lord Jesus. (See Isa. 53:8.) "He was taken from prison and from judgment." There is something very instructive for us here. It makes all the difference how the people of God get into their circumstances. Here Joseph could not help being brought down into Egypt. But in Gen. 12:10, Abram went down of his own will. "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there." Egypt is a type of this world out of which the people of God have been delivered.