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Joseph
“Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.” Genesis 37:20 NKJV
I know what you are all thinking when you read my chosen verse here today.
What is wrong with Carol to choose such a verse?
But, bear with me a moment as we set the stage.
The verse applies to Joseph as a young man.
He is the favorite of his father’s many sons. His father has presented him with a coat of many colors that is clearly envied by the others. Joseph is the apple of his father’s eye and at this point in the story, the only son of his wife Rachel.
Joseph has a lot going for him. God also loves him and as a result Joseph dreams dreams that foretell his favor throughout his life.
In his dream, he is bowed down to by his brothers and father and mother, symbolically and prophetically. We don’t know how Joseph presented his dreams to others, but may we always convey our hopes and future wishes without boasting or any kind of arrogance.
Joseph’s brothers are so jealous of him, that they take this youngest brother of them all, throw him into a pit, and sell him to the next traders going by.
He gets taken from all he loves and ends up far away in Egypt.
If his brothers had any idea of all the good and bad to follow their brother’s life, they would indeed wonder about their own words…”we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”
If you read chapters 37-50 in Genesis, you will see that there is much in Joseph’s life that is sorrowful, unfair, and challenges his faith. Yet, we see the absolutely incredible blessings that also flow into his life, as he continues in faithfulness to God.
He has been made leader, second only to Pharaoh.
Joseph was put in charge of dealing with the extreme famine with which Egypt and surrounding countries were faced.
When his brothers come seeking help, he eventually reveals himself to them, as well as saves their lives and the life of his father and youngest brother.
So many others are also saved by the wisdom God has given Joseph.
God took a terrible situation for a 17 year old Joseph and, years later, turned it into a blessing.
Countless other lives were saved by God through Joseph.
Joseph’s brothers began with ridicule of Joseph and jealousy that led to a death plan and a selling into slavery plot.
They taunted the question of what would become of Joseph’s dreams.
God gave Joseph the ability to interpret dreams and then to win the favor of the Pharaoh. God did, in fact, fulfil young Joseph’s prophetic dream.
His brothers knelt before him pleading for food to keep them all alive. Joseph has come full circle. The God that Joseph believed in was ever faithful.
Are your dreams and hopes and future being made fun of? Remember that if you trust God and cling to Him in the difficult times, He is with you and is the God of your future as well. There was a lot of sadness and many troubles for Joseph between the pages of your Bible, but God prevailed.
God always will.
What of your dreams? Not many of us are able to have or understand dreams as Joseph was blessed to do, yet we all have futures to entrust to God.
Give them into the Hands of Your Loving God and watch Him mold them in His Perfect Will.