When Things Go Bad and Where Is God?

When Joseph fell from being his father's favored son to being thrown in a cistern, then dragged off and sold as a slave, there's no mention in that entire chapter about God or any hope of being saved from his circumstances.  God is doing so much more in the background of our lives, even in the desolate times, of which we are simply not aware.  He is not going to let us go. We've got to begin getting a grasp on this truth.