Calling Sin What It Is

Genesis 39

6 So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph there, he didn’t worry about a thing—except what kind of food to eat!
Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man, 7 and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.
8 But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household. 9 No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.”

Joseph the slave has been put in charge of Potiphar’s household. God has blessed Joseph, but God is not through testing him. I think Joseph passes this particular test with flying colors. He calls sin what it is: sin. He doesn’t try to rationalize, justify or ignore sin. He gives credit to his earthly master for what is his, but Joseph knows that the sin Potiphar’s wife is trying to get him to commit is not just a sin against Potiphar. It is a sin against God. Yeah, we need to stop sugar-coating sin and call it what it is. We need to flee from it, repent of it, and give God the glory always!