
It is beautiful to notice Joseph's reverent references to God in his first  interview with Pharaoh. When the heart is full of God, the tongue will be almost  obliged to speak of Him; and all such references will be easy and natural as  flowers in May.
These words might have been uttered by the Lord Jesus.  They are so perfectly in harmony with the tenor of His life. He loved to say  that His words, and works, and plans, were not His own, but the Father's. Once,  when a ruler called Him good, He reminded him that only One was good, and that  all goodness was derived from God. Men knew little enough of Jesus, because He  sought ever to be a reflecting mirror for His Father, and to glorify Him on the  earth. But the Spirit reveals Him to those that love.
These words might  have been the Apostle Paul's. He delighted to say that he worked, yet not he,  but the grace of God in him; that he lived, yet not he, but Christ in him; that  he knew and spake the mysteries of God, yet not he, but the Spirit of  God.
Thus we should speak. Our light must so shine that men may turn from  us to Him from whom we have derived it. Whenever the temptation arises to revert  on ourselves, to attract men to ourselves, to lead them to think that we can  meet their need, let us count ourselves dead to the suggestion, saying, "It is  not in me; God shall give" (Act 3:12). What strength and comfort come into our  hearts, in view of demands which are too great for our weak nature to meet. "It  is not in me; God shall give." If our hearts were inditing a good matter, they  would boil over, and we should speak more frequently of the things that touch  our King.