The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Genesis 41:1, 8b, “And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one
who could interpret them… “Pharaoh had a dream… and he said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one can interpret it; and I have heard it said about
you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
16 Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God will give
Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

Have you ever had a dream? Of course, you have. But, have you ever had a dream you couldn’t figure out? Maybe it was a silly, senseless kind of dream where you were walking around in a huge crowd, looking for, but never finding
the friends you sought.

Maybe it was one like one I had. I was invited to preach in this country church;
and I was seated on the front pew when I suddenly realized I had come all that way and forgotten my Bible! (Fortunately, I awoke before I got to the pulpit, so
no one ever knew! Whew! Great it was just a dream!)

In the text above, Pharaoh had a dream that none of his servants could interpret.
One of the servants, however, had knowledge of Joseph’s interpretation of
Dream (You see, both of them were at one time in Pharaoh’s prison; and it was
there that Joseph had interpreted a dream for this servant. He remembered
Joseph and Pharaoh had Joseph summoned from prison so he could interpret
Pharaoh’s dream.

“Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, ‘It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.’” It was in that very moment that Joseph could have rehearsed
what he knew and taken credit for it. Yet, he refused to lie and gave Pharaoh a
truthful, humble answer.

It is not said that Joseph knew the answer to every dream. For all we know, he
only knew one: but he was careful to be humble and exalt the LORD as the One
who knows all the answers to everything! May the LORD help us to always be
humble about the things we know, and careful not to pretend we know everything!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom