Yesterday I was listening to the story of Joseph (King of Dreams). I thought about how much his brothers must have hated him to send him away. Heck, if it hadn’t been for Ruben he would have been dead. I was thinking about all that he went through. His bosses wife wanted to have sex with him. When he wouldn’t have any parts of that with her, she claimed he attacked her. Then he went to prison. At this point I probably would have said “God, what the heck are you doing?” I know I would have reacted like that. Not Joseph though. He was patient and waited for God to show him what He had in store for him. God allowed him to tell the two other prisoners what their dreams were. Now that didn’t set him free. However, it did give him the opportunity to let Pharaoh know about his gift is. But again, it didn’t happen quickly. The cupbearer was restored to his position but the baker was killed. This is what Joseph had told them. Joseph also asked them to tell Pharaoh about his gift. But the cupbearer forgot. So there sat Joseph waiting. It took two years and then the Pharaoh began having dreams. All the sudden the cupbearer remember what Joseph had said to him. He told Pharaoh. Then they brought Joseph out of prison. Joseph told him that the dreams .
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18 when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.
19 After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.
20 The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
22 “In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.
23 After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.
24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.”
25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream.
27 The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.
28 “It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
29 Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,
30 but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.
31 The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe.
32 The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.
It looked like Joseph was sitting pretty at this point. But that isn’t the end of the story….
