Joseph, the Dream Interpreter...

Pharaoh's Dream Cows

So lately, we've been studying Genesis in the girls bible study I've been going to on Thursdays.  This week, we started learning about Joseph and how he was able to interpret dreams.

This has always been one of my favorite bible stories, but I was thinking more about it this time around, and it has just been extra cool this time about how detailed and perfect God's plan was.  He gave Joseph a dream when he was just a boy, that told him that his ten older brothers would one day bow down to him.  Whenever Joseph told this dream to his brothers, they decided to kill him but sold him into slavery instead.

So Joseph grows up as an Egyptian slave, but God is always with him, and he always becomes the head over the household (or prison) wherever he lives.  He ends up in prison, and is there until someone remembers that God gave him the power to interpret dreams, right as the Pharaoh has a dream that no one can/will interpret for him.

The dream Pharaoh had meant that there would be seven years of abundance, and seven years of famine throughout the land.  So Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge of the whole kingdom and he creates storehouses of grain during the years of abundance so that they won't run out of food during the famine years.

So, things turn out as Joseph says they will, and eventually, his older brothers are sent to him to buy grain for their households.  They end up bowing down to Joseph, just as he told them they would all those years earlier.

Isn't it amazing how God just knows exactly what will happen when we're middle-aged, even when we are very young?  God really does have a plan for every living person on the Earth, and it's nice to have reminders every now and then like these.

It makes me wonder what God's plan for my life is, and what I'm destined for whenever I grow up!