Seize the Moment – Day 434
Confident Humility!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, May 25.
Can God use you to do great things for Him?
Joseph is still in prison and the Pharaoh has a dream that no one can interpret for him. The chief cupbearer, having forgotten about Joseph in prison for the last two years, remembers and tells Pharaoh about Joseph’s ability to accurately interpret dreams.
Pharaoh calls for Joseph in Genesis 41:15-16: “‘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.’ Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, ‘It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.’”
This is the opportunity of a lifetime and Joseph seemingly deflects attention from himself. Our culture would have us update Joseph’s resume with something like this, “A reliable track record of interacting with dreams, including two successful interpretations with high government officials in Pharaoh’s court.”
But that’s not what Joseph does. Instead Joseph shows confident humility! God responds by giving Joseph not only a right interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream, but wisdom on how to apply the dream to the nation.
Listen to Pharaoh response from verses 39-40, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are. “You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
Joseph is a great illustration of Jesus’ promise from Matthew 23:12, “Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.”
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is simply thinking of yourself less.
Seize the moment and walk in confident humility.