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Genesis chapter 40 verse 8.

They said to him, we have had dreams and there's no one to interpret them.

And Joseph said to them, do not interpretations belong to God,

please tell them to me.

So what I love about this chapter is Joseph is in prison.

He's been given all kinds of responsibility because of his integrity there in the prison,

specifically at this point he is caring for a cupbearer and a baker who worked for the king of Egypt.

They have these dreams that make them distraught and they're saying we wish somebody could

interpret them and what Joseph does is he doesn't say I can do this he says do not

interpretations belong to God.

Then he says, please tell them to me.

Like Joseph from the very beginning is pointing the cupbearer and the baker here to God who interprets dreams.

Now he's going to help with that interpretation, but he's doing it because he's trusting

you and relying on God.

And that seems pretty simple, but think about this situation that Joseph is in.

Don't you think he had to be at least tempted to be mad at God, bitter toward God.

Like look at where purity and integrity have got him when he fled from Potipher's wife and that

temptation it got him put in prison His brothers sold him into slavery. Like this has been a

journey for Joseph and I can just imagine him struggling in his faith like

God where are you in the middle of all this but he knows as soon as these

people say hey we've had some dreams he points him to God he trusts in God and oh that's the kind of faith I want to have in the middle of trials that even

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