Genesis 37:5 Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: 7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8 His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
9 Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” 11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
Joseph is what we would qualify one of the "good guys" of the Bible - a positive example of one who lived for God. Eventually his dreams were fulfilled, and he did have such great authority in the most powerful kingdom of the day that his siblings did bow before him. But it was no easy road. He was not appreciated. He went through extensive times of rejection, being ignored, and even enslaved and imprisoned. It was years seeing his dream become a reality. How many of the obstacles Joseph faced would it take you to give up on your dream? Have you already? Joseph's path was far but straight and easy, but even though it seemed his dreams had impossible, he realized God was still leading his paths. Do you?
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