Friday, September 25, 2009

Prime Minister

Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented  robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
 5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it."
 8 His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
 9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
 10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?" 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.(Genesis 37:2-11).


Later Joseph gets sold to Potiphar. Potiphar's wife tries to seduce Joseph but Joseph runs away from her. And then was sent to prison. Joseph had all the reasons to blame God and to desist from the dreams that God had given him. Many people they have dreams but either don't do anything about it because it's too hard or they don't want to fight for it. Many people look at the circumstances and then they stop fighting for their dreams. But what if instead of looking at the problems and circumstances we look at the victory. What will happen then would you  think we would be able to go towards our dreams? We intend to lose a blessing simply because we don't want to fight for our goals. People who go towards their goals are successful because they are willing to sacrifice and give up anything for it. Joseph after going through all these injustice he still went after his goal and he became prime minister of Egypt.

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