Remember this? “Look, this dreamer is coming! “Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!” (Genesis 37 v 19-20)
“We shall see what will become of his dreams!” That’s the evil taunt that has carried on through the centuries and perhaps into your own life. You may have heard a similar voice when something happened to you that set you back. You wondered if you would ever make it through. But you did.
Today we read how the same brothers who plotted to kill Joseph are unknowingly bowing down to him as the second in command of the land, just as Joseph’s dream said they would.
“Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.” (Genesis 42:6)
- In this famine, their lives literally depended on their brother, whom they didn’t recognise: the one they had rejected now became their only source for life itself.
- Twenty years ago, the brothers had tried to defeat his dreams: they had acted to silence the dream, but unknowingly, it became the first step towards its fulfilment.
- Twenty years later, they had assumed the story they had written for him was the final word, but it wasn’t: whatever chapter you feel trapped in right now, it is not the last page of your book.
- Their evil plan actually provided the way for his dreams to be fulfilled: every evil act was a rung on the ladder that God was leading to Joseph’s exaltation. Evil does not get the last move.
- God’s wisdom is greater than man’s evil: no amount of evil, failure, or tragedy can ultimately derail the purposes of God for a life surrendered to him.
So whatever chapter feels like a dead end, surrender it to the God who turned a pit into a palace and a cross into an empty tomb. He has not finished writing your story. And he does not lose.
Missions Paul 