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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 cup bearer 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

in relying on God.

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 Potipers' 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 in trials in prison, there is trust in God. Now, when I read this passage, there's obviously all kinds of application, but I think

specifically about our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world who may be in prison.

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