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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Dream and jail -Gen39

Gen39
Joseph had a God dream. Then instead of seeing that dream coming to pass, his life went opposite the other way, the extremely opposite way. Although God was with him every step he went, he probably couldn't feel too confident about that dream. More over, he went through trial after trial. Prison, massive injustice...
However, God was in it every step he went. At the time he couldn't tell. But every step had a purpose.
If he hadn't be sold to the Egyptians, he wouldn't have achieved what he's called to achieve later.

Sometimes we'll encounter things that doesn't look like our dreams. But could Joseph figure out for himself and plan to go to Egypt in his youth? Sometimes we did all the right things but the result is very disappointing: Joseph ended up in jail by doing right. But can we see that God is bigger than jail and He does turn things around in time? Sometimes jail can interpret as the shadow of His wings? You'd praise Him for jail when you see the whold picture.
Isa55:9"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."