Title: Dream Man
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Text: Genesis 37:5-11
It is said that there was a large painting hanging in the office of Steel King Carnegie.
It is said that the picture was all about a ferry and oars lying on the tidal flat, unable to go out at low tide. It is said that there was an inscription written under the picture. “The tide is sure to come”. It is not a painting by a famous painter, nor is it an artistic painting, but it is said that he particularly loved it. Carnegie tells the story this way: “When I was young, I went around the house as a salesman selling things. I saw this painting one day at an old man's house. Those impressive words touched me. I got that painting and so far I promise myself by looking at this painting whenever it's difficult for me, whenever the ebb and flow of my life sweeps away everything I do. ‘The tide is sure to come’”.
Life can taste good and be successful only when you have hope and dreams like this.
“Joseph” is the first person that comes to mind when we think of a person in a dream in the Bible. Joseph was the great-grandson of Abraham, the grandson of Isaac, and the eleventh son of Jacob. He was a dream man. It was not a false dream, nor was it a dirty dream in which the devil works. Joseph's dream was a vision of what kind of person he should live and what goals he should have.
One day when Joseph was a child, he had a dream. It was a dream in which the rice fields of the brothers bowed down to their own rice fields. He had a dream of becoming a great person, saying, ‘I will become a person who is used more by God than my brothers!’ A few days later, I had another dream. He dreamed that the sun, moon and eleven stars bowed down to his star. Joseph thinks. 'Aha! I must be like a pillar that lifts up our family!’ He had a bigger dream.
But the dream broke his daily happiness. He lost his father's love and brotherly love.
What did Joseph do to make his dream come true?
1. Joseph was betrayed by his brothers, but he forgave him.
His brothers sold him to slavery in Egypt, but he was able to forgive them because he had a dream of becoming a great figure. A person with a dream can forgive even his enemies. I hope you too are blessed with forgiveness.
2. Although Joseph was sold as a slave to the house of Potiphar, the leader of Pharaoh's guard, he worked faithfully there.
He did not waste time blaming the eldest and grieving. Even as a servant, he did his best for his master, and he received the master's approval and became a person in charge of all affairs of the master's house. However, he was falsely framed and imprisoned. But strange!. If Joseph had had an affair with his master's wife, his master Potiphar would have killed him immediately, who was only a slave. But they just put them in jail. Why? It can be inferred that Potiphar also acknowledged Joseph's faithfulness and sincerity and, on the contrary, doubted his wife's conduct. As such, Joseph was a man of dreams, so he maintained his sincerity and became a recognized person through this.
3. Even in prison, Joseph waited eagerly for the day God would use him and persevered.
And finally, he became a wise prime minister who interprets Pharaoh's dream and copes with the 7 years of great abundance and the 7 years of famine, and became the ruler of all of Egypt.
A person who has a dream like this does not perish. Even if you feel like you are falling, you get up like an ottogi The life of Joseph shows us this.