People have dreams. We have used the idea of a dream—something we experience when we are asleep—to represent future hopes, achievements, or aspirations. Dreams in this sense are very personal. The definition for the term aspiration is a desire, a longing, or aim, ambition. This is the way we tend to think of dreams. Like his father Jacob, Joseph received two dreams in his lifetime by God. Unfortunately, Joseph tended to be very arrogant. He was greatly favored by his father over his other brothers, and carried around the entitlements of a premium son. He boldly
told his dreams to his older brothers and his father and, to be frank about it, they were disgusted and marked it up to the arrogance of a young, teenager Joseph. The dreams were taken very much out of context. The dreams were true and God would certainly make them come true but they were not for that time or space. We should work hard to hear what God is saying to us in the context of what is happening around us.
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Joseph & God; Genesis 40-43
Many have tried to make sense of Joseph's devastating fall into Egypt. To suggest that God was late or impeded in His rescue is a misunderstanding of what God was doing. Remember that Joseph was troubled by pride. This was encouraged by his father who treasured him more than his other sons. Josep...
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The Dream Realized; Genesis 44-46
The dream Joseph had in his youth so many years ago had finally come to fruition. But the dream did not play out at all like Joseph initially thought. In his youth he was arrogant, but God humbled him in order to establish him as the leader he was called to be. I'm sure this was an overwhelming a...
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The Holy Mountain; Exodus 1-3
Mt. Horeb is the place where Moses encountered the one true God of heaven and earth, when the LORD called Moses to take the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt. It was Joseph who brought his family into Egypt, and now it is Moses, Joseph's relative, who is called by God to bring them out. A...
