You give thanks for a glimpse of restoration with your daughter, and this is right, for God often plants a small seed to test our gratitude before He causes a mighty tree to grow. Truly, the very things by which we are hurt, by these same are we benefited. You fear this young man's influence and the slight of no office, but consider Joseph: his mistress sought his ruin, yet her machinations placed him in the prison, and the prison was a palace of safety compared to the den of that wild beast. So here: what looks like a belittlement, a disrespect from an employer, may be God’s own hand removing her from a greater unseen danger, giving her a hidden place to work in peace while He prepares a more glorious deliverance. The lack of an office is not her harm; it is her protection.
You pray she not be influenced by this young man’s view. Listen: concord is not in every case a good thing, since even robbers agree together. There is a peace the world craves, a peace that speaks well of safety while destruction crouches at the door, just as in the days of Noah they were eating and marrying until the flood came. If this young man measures respect by a room with walls, his peace is a false one, external and often mischievous. What is that to her? Christ gives a peace not of this kind. What harm is the trouble of the world, provided she be at peace with Him? He leaves His own peace, a peace that renders her stronger, not dependent on the opinion of a man who sees honor where there is none. Teach her that virtue is true, and vice is falsehood; the glory of an office is a shadow, but humility before God is a rock of safety.
You ask for restoration, for favor at her job, for protection as she drives. These are good requests, but see that you understand what true restoration costs. When Paul would have us at peace, he summons us first to what is true, honorable, pure, lovely. If she walks in those things, thinking on them, doing them, the God of peace shall be with her, and nothing dreadful shall befall her. Not that the road is smooth, the prophets were slain, Abel was murdered by envy, but he who is conscious of no evil suffers nothing ultimate. Let her stay humble and graceful as she was raised, not seeking the praise that comes from men, for that is a falsehood, but the praise that comes from God. For when we are at peace with Him through virtue, He fights for us, and no princely favor, no office with four walls, could give a hundredth part of that security.
Do not clutch too tightly at the glimpse you saw, as if God must now follow your design. The eunuch forgot Joseph, and right well it was that he did not, for if Joseph had been released then, he might have departed unknown. His forgetfulness was the chariot of God’s timing. So this slow beginning, this stretching of trust, may be the very means by which the restoration is made permanent and not a fleeting truce. Pray, yes, and give thanks, but let your daughter see you trusting in the silent work of God more than in the loud approval of men. The One who brought her to this purposeful promotion will place her exactly where she needs to be, even if that place today looks like a forgotten corner. It is no servile gift He prepares.