In this instant gratification world we want it all now. Our internet is too slow, the microwave should heat things quicker and will that red light at the intersection ever change!?! It can be hard to slow down, to pause quietly and wait for life to happen. But what we do with that time of waiting is just as important as what we are waiting for.
Joseph waited two more years in prison. What was he doing during this time? Was he growing bitter at God for leaving him there? Was he plotting to get back at the cup bearer for forgetting him? Maybe plotting against Potipher's wife for her lie that landed him in jail in the first place. Why stop there? Why not go all the way back to his brothers cruel dealings, selling him as a slave to foreigners traveling through the land. If it hadn't been for them, none of this would have ever happened!
But that wasn't what he was doing, that wasn't Joseph's way. God had a plan and Joseph patiently waited for God to reveal it. God could have reminded the cup bearer any time of Joseph's deeds but it wasn't time yet. Potipher's wife couldn't stop God's plan, Joseph's brother's weren't in control.
I suspect during that next two years in prison, God was continuing to prepare Joseph's heart to serve Him. I suspect Joseph was continuing to mature in his faith in God. At the right time, the cup bearer remembered Joseph.
Genesis 41:1-8 NLT
Pharaoh’s Dreams
1 Two full years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River. 2 In his dream he saw seven fat, healthy cows come up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass. 3 Then he saw seven more cows come up behind them from the Nile, but these were scrawny and thin. These cows stood beside the fat cows on the riverbank. 4 Then the scrawny, thin cows ate the seven healthy, fat cows! At this point in the dream, Pharaoh woke up.
5 But he fell asleep again and had a second dream. This time he saw seven heads of grain, plump and beautiful, growing on a single stalk. 6 Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were shriveled and withered by the east wind. 7 And these thin heads swallowed up the seven plump, well-formed heads! Then Pharaoh woke up again and realized it was a dream.
8 The next morning Pharaoh was very disturbed by the dreams. So he called for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. When Pharaoh told them his dreams, not one of them could tell him what they meant.
Blessings, Cecilia
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