Future Dreams

"Then Joseph said to them, 'Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.'"


I was struck with the thought that mankind can't predict the future, we can only react to it. If we could predict the future would we want to know? My mind wandered to Joseph. Here he was in charge of the dungeon he'd been thrown in and he asks two of his fellow prisoners why they looked so dejected. Honestly, my first thought was, "maybe because they're in a DUNGEON with no clue what's going to happen to them?!" But no, they both had dreams that were haunting them. Both dreams were predictions of the future. Both dreams came true and three days was the whole future for one of those prisoners. Would you want to know?


I wonder if the doomed baker asked Joseph about this God that interpreted his dream. Would he be inclined to not believe Joseph's testimony? Would he ask questions regarding Joseph's credentials for interpreting dreams? Past references? Would he try to find reconciliation with this God or use all outside influences to try to gain his freedom and thus prove God wrong? Regardless, the next three days must've been stressful for the man!


"Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." "I cannot do it," Joseph replied to Pharaoh, "but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.'"