Title: Dreams, Reality, and Faith
Contents
The three patriarchs of the nation of Israel recorded in Genesis are connected with Abraham, a man of faith, Isaac, a man of obedience, and Jacob, a man of prayer. And there is the story of Joseph, the dreamer, that links back and forth between this patriarchal story and the history of the Exodus. Joseph's tale contains the gap between dreams and reality and the confession of faith of humans living in the gap between dreams and reality. The modern problems are the conflict between ideology and reality, the gap between theory and practice, and also the problem of text and context in theology. Human history is the same in any era, but there is no era in which human reality betrays human ideals like today, and God's lesson through this Joseph story is really meaningful to us who live in the gap between this dream and reality.
Joseph's first dream was that his eleven brothers and even his father would gather around him and bow down to him. People have dreams and ambitions from an early age. My dream is to become a better person than my father, my teacher, my brothers, or anyone else. Most of the children say they want to be president. When this blue dream unfolds into reality, what will it be like? Growing up a boy with a great dream is a hopeful and joyful thing, but the reality is contrary to his dream, where rivalry arises, and when the competition is fierce, it becomes a struggle, and when the struggle is fierce, it leads to the tragedy of eliminating the other. The reality is an unjust competitive society, a harsh reality in which only the fittest survives. This is the story of Joseph's eleven brothers, who tried to kill him and sold him to a caravan going to Egypt.
A dream is a world that cannot overcome reality. We are now the best country in Asia, from a developing country to a developing country, and from a developing country to a developed country with a dream. However, the reality is that we are faced with the reality of cruel competition, a cruel and heartless struggle, and perhaps even cutting off the budding buds. Joseph's blue dream was not only shattered in the washing of reality, but he also lost all his parents and siblings and even his hometown, and then he became a slave to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, who he had never even dreamed of. This is the fate of those who pursue only their own ambitions and ideals.
Joseph's next dream was to unravel the dream of a prisoner helping in prison. Joseph was found guilty of resisting the temptation of Potiphar's wife and was imprisoned, in which two other prisoners were held. They are the king's bookkeeper's bookkeeper and breadwinner, and they are similar factors instead of the palace. By interpreting the dream the two men had, he finally got to the point where he could finally solve the king's dream. Here, it means not having a dream as a dream, but having the ability to make a dream a reality. This is a lesson in the case of man's dream, that is, when his ideal is to help others' tragic fate, rather than as an ambition for success in his career, and when he realizes that ideal through human wisdom or ability. As a person matures, he develops the wisdom and ability to realize his ideals. Humans have conquered and developed the Earth, and have finally had a dream of developing space, and have reached the threshold of realization. It is about making the ideal a reality.