Joseph, by Senior Pastor Fred Garcia
We often find fault with Joseph and being immature or even prideful about his dreams, however nowhere does it say that Joseph was foolish and sharing his dreams… we can surmise that, we can speculate based on our own experience, but speculation is a dangerous tool, and we can and often do put ourselves in the place of Joseph’s brothers or his father and see things from their viewpoint alone. However, there’s another viewpoint. Joseph had dreams. These were dreams given to him by God, not contrived by his own desires, but dreams that he should have been able to share with those closest to him, his brothers, his father, his flesh and blood. So while we may be able to find fault with Joseph and sharing these things, does the greater fault lie with his father and brothers, all significantly older than him, who should’ve been much more mature and discerning and who’s place it was to be excited and get under dreams of their brother rather than become threatened by or jealous what God was speaking to him.
Genesis 11:26 -28, 31-32 (NASB) 26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. 27 Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans...... 31 Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there. 32 The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran. Genesis 12:1-3 (NASB) 1 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."
They were in the promised land…They left due to the famine but never returned…How do we know that they were supposed to return? Because they were descendants of Abraham the promise was that they would possess the land. Famine took them away from the promise for a season, but the mandate to possess the land was never rescinded… whether you step outside of the promise or you are called outside of the promise, the mandate to possess the promise does not get nullified.
Wouldn’t it be just like God to give Joseph a dream for the purpose of expanding the kingdom? We’ll never know God‘s initial intentions at least the side of Heaven. But what if his father in his brothers had received him as true sons or as a true father got under his mission and pushed up? In the process of doing this so they still could’ve bowed down to Joseph because of his governmental position, the position which he was given or would be given by means which would choose but in the process also realize that this was with her brother was made for! What if each of them had stepped in the fullness of all that they were called to do how else would those borders have been expanding? In what other arenas do the other brothers excel that they’re fellow brothers would be bowing down to them?
