Sat.’s Devo - Dreams

Read: Genesis 41:17-42:17; Matthew 13:24-46; Psalm 18:1-15; Proverbs 4:1-6
We can learn a lot about dreams by looking at the dreams of Joseph’s life. The butler and the baker each attended the king and one of them was a traitor. This is the picture of two different kinds of people that God will judge in the end. One will be rewarded according to his righteousness and be allowed to live forever and one will be rewarded for his sin and be condemned to die.
In the Pharaoh’s dream he dreamed of things that pertained to his livelihood, like his cattle and his grain. A famine was coming that would touch both of these things. God gave the Pharaoh a heads up about it and he was wise enough to pay attention to the warning even if he didn’t know how to interpret it. He found someone who could.
We get another clue as to how to interpret dreams in verse 32. It says that the reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter had been firmly decided by God and God will do it soon. I have seen that so many times. Usually, we remember snippets of two or three different dreams and they are all saying the same thing. Here, we see why. It is because God has determined it and it will happen soon. We have to remember ’soon’ in God’s eyes are not necessarily ’soon’ in ours.
A famine was imminent but God had a plan of survival and prosperity through it. Since the Pharaoh was wise enough to seek, he found an answer. Joseph, once again, obtained favor and is now placed in his destiny. It was not to save Egypt as much as it was to save his family - God’s chosen people. God is working everything in the world for the good of his people.
We see the principle of many stories and the same meaning in Matthew. Jesus is explaining the kingdom of heaven. He gives us many parables to explain it. The sons of the kingdom are the good seed, the mustard seed, the yeast, the treasure and the pearl. In the first three, they begin small and grow. In the last two they are hidden and don’t immerge until they are found. We have an enemy who also plants seeds - bad seeds. These are the sons of the evil one. We are not to try to decide who they are because sometimes the worse weed produces the prettiest flower in the end. Only God knows what the seed really is.
Lord, help us to love wisdom and seek out what you are saying to us.