The Interpretation Remembered

FAITH IN ACTION:
LIVING AS FAITHFUL PEOPLE
God's Protection
Joseph Finds Favor

Genesis 41:1-13

The Message

 ^1-4 Two years passed and Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile River. Seven cows came up out of the Nile, all shimmering with health, and grazed on the marsh grass. Then seven other cows, all skin and bones, came up out of the river after them and stood by them on the bank of the Nile. The skinny cows ate the seven healthy cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. ^5-7 He went back to sleep and dreamed a second time: Seven ears of grain, full-bodied and lush, grew out of a single stalk. Then seven more ears grew up, but these were thin and dried out by the east wind. The thin ears swallowed up the full, healthy ears. Then Pharaoh woke up—another dream.
 ⁸ When morning came, he was upset. He sent for all the magicians and sages of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but they couldn't interpret them to him.
 ^9-13 The head cupbearer then spoke up and said to Pharaoh, "I just now remembered something—I'm sorry, I should have told you this long ago. Once when Pharaoh got angry with his servants, he locked me and the head baker in the house of the captain of the guard. We both had dreams on the same night, each dream with its own meaning. It so happened that there was a young Hebrew slave there with us; he belonged to the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us, each dream separately. Things turned out just as he interpreted. I was returned to my position and the head baker was impaled."

For Reflection

All God's Good Time.

The stage was set two years prior.  The time for Joseph to be recognized had not yet come.  God delayed the cupbearer's report on Joseph until such time when revealing Joseph and his God would make a difference in the outcome for Joseph's people.  Joseph now gets to serve the Pharaoh directly.  How would you react if you were disappointed in the cupbearer and two years later still siting in jail, a slave to the guard?


Pray
that you will recognize God's timing is not the same as your timing.  Pray that you will keep your faith in God and hope in the fulfillment of His promise in you.