Draw Near and Trust God

 

“We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright,

while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

Genesis 37:7

“Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people.

So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him

with their faces to the ground.”

Genesis 42:6

  

The two verses above paint a picture for us of Joseph receiving a word from the LORD through a dream and then the fulfillment of that word.

Despite the two verses being separated by roughly only five chapters in the book of Genesis, the time from the word being received until its’ fulfillment was actually separated by several years.

Most of us are familiar with the story so isn’t it interesting that the word Joseph received said nothing about the journey to get to the place of fulfillment?

God left out the details about the angry and jealous brothers, He failed to mention the pit, Potiphar’s house, the prison and the palace.

He was silent concerning betrayal, slavery, false accusations, and the details of promotion.

He made no mention of Egypt and Pharaoh.

 Joseph was left with a word and a choice.

In our lives, as God speaks to us, we too are left with a word and a choice.

We can choose to trust God or not!

God had a greater work to do in the heart and character of Joseph than anything external He wanted to accomplish through Him.

I would have to say that what God wanted to do in Joseph was far greater than what He wanted to do through Joseph.

The same is true of us.

God is transforming us.

Maybe He has spoken to you and you have doubted that word because you find yourself in a pit, in a prison or in a place far removed from that word being fulfilled.

Draw near to God and trust Him to complete His work in you despite any betrayals you may face; trust Him through the long seasons of testing, through the changes all around you.

Remember He watches over His word to perform it.

And, in the ‘in-between time’, do just as Joseph did, draw near and trust God.