If there is any trouble in your heart, if you are in darkness, or in the power of sin, I bring to you the Son of God, with the promise that He will come in and take charge.  As Potiphar took Joseph, will you not take Jesus?  Has He not proven Himself worthy to be trusted?  Come and say, “Jesus shall have entire charge; He is worthy.”  Think not only of His Divine power, but think of His wonderful love; think of His coming from heaven to save you; think of His dying on Calvary and shedding His blood out of intense love for you.  Oh, think of it; Christ in heaven loves every one who is given to Him, and whom He has made a child of God.  “Having loved His own that were in the world, He loved them unto the end.”

Must I plead in the name of the love of the crucified Jesus; must I plead with you Christians, and say, Look at Jesus, the Son of God, your Redeemer, and ask you to make Him overseer over all?  Give Him charge of your temper, your heart’s affections, your thoughts, your whole being, and He will prove Himself worthy of it.  Joseph had been for a time just a common slave, and with the other slaves had served Pharaoh.  Alas! many a Christian has used Christ for his own advancement and comfort, just as he uses everything in the world.  He uses father and mother, minister, money, and all else the world will give, to comfort and make him happy; there is danger of his using Christ Jesus in the same way.  But oh, brethren, this is not right.  You are His house, and He has a right to dwell therein.  Will you not come and surrender all, and say, “Lord Jesus, I have made Thee overseer over all?”

But now, secondly, the measure of that surrender.  We read in the 4th verse:  “All that he had he put into his hands.”  Then in verse 5:  “And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer over all that he had”—­there you have it the second time—­“the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house, and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had”—­there the third time.  Then in verse 6:  “And he left all that he had”—­there you have the words the fourth time—­“in Joseph’s hand, and he knew not all he had, save the bread which he did eat.”  What do I see here?  That Potiphar actually gave everything into Joseph’s hands.  He made him master over his slaves.  All the money was put into Joseph’s hands, for we read that Potiphar had care of nothing.  When dinner was brought upon the table, he ate of it, and that was all he knew of what was going on in his house.  Is not this entire surrender?—­he gives up everything into the hands of Joseph.  Ah, beloved Christians, I want you to ask yourselves:  “Have I done that?” You have offered more than one consecration prayer, and you have more than once said:  “Jesus, all I have I give to Thee.”  You have said it, and meant it; but very probably you did not realize fully what it meant.