A man wrote in to the "Clean Laughs" online board with this story: "I was in my wills and trusts course when the professor posed this question to the students: Why do people choose to have their children, rather than their siblings, inherit their estate?

"After students offered various theories, one fellow raised his hand. "˜This may be a bit off the point,' he said, "˜but when I was little, when my brother and sister finished playing with me, they would put me into a drawer.'" (1)

Most of us can relate to that poor guy's observation. Brothers and sisters can be our very first adversaries in life. Joseph, the young man we'll be looking at in our Bible passage today, certainly knew what that felt like. Sadly enough, he learned that one's family is not always a safe haven.

Someone made a …