Joseph: Meeting Destiny

Joseph wasn’t enjoying this. He was not just nonchalantly going through life, don’t worry be happy. Stoic lifestyle.

How easy would it have been for the Butler to have mentioned him. This could be his big break. That which he had been waiting on. His ticket home.

How easy it is for us. Just that one thing. That one break. That one interview.

Genesis 40:23 Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

God was silent but he was not absent.

Just cause you don’t see it happening. Just because you don’t understand it does not mean God does not understand it.

Yet we must know there is a bigger story. Our job is not to understand it but to wake up every day and say what would someone do who is in my circumstances but is confident that God is with them.

Joseph’s Palace 2 Years later

Although the butler forgot him God did not forget him.

Genesis 41:8-13 Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh. (9) Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying: "I remember my faults this day. (10) "When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker, (11) "we each had a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream. (12) "Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us; to each man he interpreted according to his own dream. (13) "And it came to pass, just as he interpreted for us, so it happened. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

Genesis 41:14-16 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; and he shaved, changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh

Joseph’s answer to Pharaoh

(15) And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream, to interpret it."

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(16) So Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

I cannot do it.

But God can.

To the very man who thought he was God. I mean he could have kept this to himself and thank God later. You know what I mean.

But what did he do? The same thing that any man who had been sold by his brothers into slavery, framed for rape, spent 10 years in the dungeon, standing before Pharaoh but are confident that God is with you., It never changes.

Matthew 12:34 For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.