Author Darlene J Conard
Secretly among themselves they conspired to kill Joseph. His own flesh and blood wanted to kill him. It was more than him being the favored one. His dreams infuriated them. “Who does he think he is anyway?”
Ruben didn’t want the guilt of his blood upon them. “Let’s just push him in a deep dark pit. That would teach him a lesson.” With pleasure his brothers threw him into the pit. I’m sure he begged them to pull him out. “Please get me out of here!” Laughing and scorning they reminded him of his dreams. “Look at the dreamer? Did you dream about this Joseph?”
During Ruben’s absence Juda decided since they couldn’t kill him, why not, sell him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. In today’s dollars it would be two hundred to five hundred in value. Well, they had to tell their father something! They couldn’t just return confessing, “We sold Joseph to teach him a lesson.”
Jacob believed his sons, they brought Joseph’s coat covered in blood, ripped, saying I’m sure sorrowfully, “We found this, is this not your son’s coat?” Indeed, it was his son’s coat. None had one like it. Its unique design was tailored for his unique son. Pain penetrated deep into his soul.
What saddens me is his brothers weren’t affected by the sight of Jacob grieving. What a shock! He was unaware of the woven web of deception. Hostility burned within them. Joseph’s dreams were that powerful. Unmoved, no conviction, and no more Joseph and his dreams disappeared when they sold him into slavery. That’s what they thought. They had no idea that their actions transitioned him into fulfilling them.
God is teaching me this! One night while lying in bed the Lord reminded me, “What looks out of control to you is Me being in control. That’s the wonderful thing about being a child of God! The moment we surrender to Him He takes complete control.
Now let’s talk about the boomerang effect. Psalm 105:16 says, “Moreever he called a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.” (Psalm 105:16 KJV)
God called a famine upon the land and cutoff their resources. But the land that received Joseph flourished. He went from the pit to being a slave, accused, imprisoned to being a ruler over the land. Jacob and his brothers knew Egypt thrived but remained unaware of who oversaw the land.
Sitting together, one gazed at the other. “Why are you looking at each other? I’ve heard there is corn in Egypt. Go there and buy corn that we live and not die.” (Genesis 42:1-3)
God sent Joseph ahead. This is one of those acts of God that leave me without words! Do you see how everyone is being molded?
In the end it all works out and became as God said it would. Dreams from God cannot be diminished.
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
The mockers, accusers will come down to a level realizing; the favor of God is upon the crown of the dreamer.
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WRITING GOD'S VISION----AUTHOR DARLENE JUANITA CONARD 