I am Joseph and I am 30 years old and the newly appointed PRIME MINISTER of Egypt. I will never forget the day I was called in to Pharaoh’s palace, couldn’t imagine as what was really going on. The days of pit, prison and now the palace, is this a dream in real life? I often remember a golden saying “I slept and dreamt and thought life is a happiness but I woke up and found life is but a duty” and in this very duty of life I have journeyed a long terrain of adventures.
So the day I was in Pharaoh’s palace the contempt of life which hunted to my finite mind and life jolted and came to a standstill. Let me take you to a side thought of what I mean of the very words in the above statement. You see the Pharaoh is great among the greatest, the whole region of the continent feared him. For he had the mightiest army in his kingdom, a mighty number of footmen soldiers a very great multitudes of solders of horsemen. In true sense of military power Pharaoh had the best trained army commander who revolts around the country with absolute power and ready for battle at any uncertain time of all seasons. His palace is needed a magnificent, with its royal glitters of Egypt’s beauty. Oh the pillars where like a strong tower just like the beauty of cedars of Lebanon. A very immaculate architecture, arts, interiors with gold, diamond, sapphires, emeralds and many more precious arts was in whole palace. He the mighty Pharaoh himself glitters with all kinds of precious stones, rubies and golds that were hanging all over his costumes. Needless to say that the palace was a needed a heart grinding glimpse for all time. Besides his ministers were brilliant in their costumes, conduct and presentations their reverence and obeisance to Pharaoh was in perfect timing and rhyming. One had to wonder as how long the training might have taken place to act in such a disciplined manner in fully cooperatative’s ambiguity.
So I was invited by the mighty Pharaoh into his monster palace. At first when I was intimated an order from Pharaoh, that I was going to be in his presence before his royal throne and I needed to be groomed and costumed. I felt flat on the ground questing me? Is it really me? Am I hearing the right words? Is this really for me? Is the order missed the right person? Volts of shock wave penetrated all across my being. And after a prolong assurance from the bearer of order of Pharaoh I was fully convinced and composed myself to accept the order with owe and wonder. Following which I had to go through a thorough rigorous training of ritual cleansing. After my ritual cleansing I for the first time felt as some body worth being a person. That am in fact a true person hidden in a person. But alas the greed and fantasy has eaten up the very true nature of dignified life just before one another. As the very saying goes “Life is not science fiction thriller what is truth and what is fantasy” For contempt implies triumph over the ill of others. That means one is ecstatic at the expense of others at their very frailties and unfortunates in life. Sad needed as this is the society that we live in today.
So when finally I was ready with all training and grooming to meet the mighty Pharaoh, I was lead with guards and captains surrounding me. Once again I couldn’t imagine as how I felt dignified forasmuch of respect and honour. But then I know I would be required to calm the noise of Pharaoh’s mind of his perplex dream. As I walked step by step to the palace arena and slowly tik toked into the door of the great palace which opened to honour me with two door keepers I welcomed myself into the king’s community and forgot all about my voyage of life. Slowly but surely now am heading towards the throne of great Pharaoh and with great calmness I approached his presence and did all the required obeisance as taught and stood straight right in front of the throne. The great Pharaoh now held back a bit with wonder and asked me the perplex dream he had which no wise men in his kingdom could find an interpretation. As a king he with full authority dislodged his dream to me in the presence of his ministers sans any wasting of time. By the very act of king I understood one very pivotal point of life is that authority correspondence an understanding. Why forasmuch he as a king had authority and he knows his authority, for nothing could override his words.
Having the dream explained which was a troublesome to his soul I now looked up to my God my loving God whom I have not seen but my being confirms that HE is the true and living God. I gently looked to great king Pharaoh and graciously uttered few gently words and said thus ‘I do not have an interpretation oh! Great king Pharaoh but I know my God, the God of Abraham, Jacob my father has, and He will give an answer from heaven. For a moment all the ministers were had their shockwave when I said I do not have an interpretation, for they thought I would be one among them. I then continued to put faith in my God and never depended on the gift of interpretation but on the Lord God Himself who gives the gift. With reverence and prayer in my heart I then slowly with firm faith began to believe the interpretation which God gave to me to be true and it will come to pass no matter if the whole world said No to it. Having had that faith and assurance I now in detailed interpreted the whole nature of the outcome of Pharaoh’s dream. Having heard the interpretation he the great Pharaoh buried himself into his own inner world. Which could be sense, but I being filled with the wisdom of God advised him as how he along with his countrymen could be rescued from the disaster if he will implement the instruction from God. For that he needs to recruit a brand new person to follow up the instruction to rescue the nation. He immediately looked up as he could now believe that there’s a hope and sure rescue if he will but humble and listen to a slave boy, rejected by society friends and family. Given the fact now that Pharaoh has fully immersed into faith of interpretation of the dream he the Pharaoh stood up from throne and stepped down a few steps towards me but in his coming down from the great throne he never dethroned himself from kingship but humbled himself to a point where his countrymen could be saved and put his own signature of golden ring into my finger and declared that I would be that man to take up the position. I didn’t know what he would call that position in which I would be assigned to do. But in a second later he said in front of everybody that he the great Pharaoh would be one step higher than me and that the whole Egypt will have to listen to me. Yes I was excited to be a Prime Minister of Egypt but most of all I greatly rejoiced and worshipped my God when Pharaoh glorified my God saying in whom the spirit of God is?
Thus I went throughout whole Egypt in the most second best chariot of Pharaoh. As the days passed into months and months into years I one day began to reel back my life.
You see I was born to my father at his old age to his beloved wife Rachael whom he my father loved so dearly. Yes body dies but love doesn’t My mother died soon after my brother’s birth. And I was the only face of my mother to my father and he loved me so much by giving me a new set of dress every now and then. In his old age he would take time to knit a new coloured dresses only to adorn me with fine attire. I was young very young and aninnocence. Never thought that human’s heart could be such an evil and lives right inside. A tones of family members but not a single true friend (Just like hundreds of facebook friends but not a single true friend in real life) So I was living among the black sheep. They are no one but my brothers a blood brothers born to my father had an evil eye towards me for they couldn’t bear the love which my father had for me. Its true love hurts and hurts very deep, for the amount of love you love a person with be prepared to be hurt at the same level. Truly my father was deeply wounded when my brothers told a lie to him saying I was torn apart by wild beast. Oh! They could so well fabricate with clear accuracy about my plight and pain when they threw me into a pit and later on sold me to a total stranger. At 17 I would be going around my garden shooting and shouting hanging around my father, holding his hands and loved to hug and be hugged. But now my won wrist is bound by chain and its hurts bad very bad for am being pulled by horse like a commodity. Who am I? what’s my future is going to be like? To whom will I be sold off too? How and who would be my master? Now that I am taken as a slave, will I ever have an opportunity to see my father ever again? All such question jiggled across my tender mind. Tears rolled all along the way for days. Every mile I take a million brokenness of heart. Who would love me, how would I be loved, where would I be loved never occurred in my mind for the days of feast and feasting over. I was so sure my father would be surely in tears to miss his beloved son Joseph, Yes one’s tears is another’s joy for this is the world we live in. With pain of heart and heal I reached Egypt and sold to Potiphar where I worked as his house man. I worked in Potiphar’s house with no time limit, day became night and night became day, such was my commitment into my work in his house. My tears became my tower. But my God was with me and this was noticed by Potiphar and as a result I was promoted and Mr Potiphar had entrusted every responsibility to me to maintain his household. But my later part of my life at Potiphar’s house was a test and trail. For every Spirituality has a test and trail for growth. With false arrow by the Potiphar’s wife I was thrown into Prison. In Potiphar’s house I had comfort, luxury and respect, but now in prison, bars and brokenness. But the invisible hand of God was with me even in prison and I was given the chief task to maintain the prison. God blessed me with the Excellency of spirit and when I met the Pharaoh’s men and interpreted their dream which came to pass when they were in prison I became a noted person. And when king Pharaoh had a very perplex dream I was asked to interpret and thus I was taken to palace from Pit and prison.
Now as the dreadfulness of famine is slowly taking place, people from all over Egypt and outside Egypt started to come to me to buy grain. And in one such day my very own brothers came to Egypt to buy grain. As soon as I saw them I recognised them. How true it is ‘out of sight out of mind” At first I played a little drama with them, this I did to test and see whether they have changed their past life. To my surprise I found they truly repented and they regretted as what they have done to me, for they thought I couldn’t know their language in which they exchanged blows of blame on each other when they sold me to Egypt. Now here my heart melted as long gap of years has longed in me the crave for father’s love, as my father was still alive. And I forgot all the past life, for as it says ‘With all thine fault I love thee still” so I reached out to my brothers introduced myself to them and hugged and kissed them. I told them saying had you been not there in my life I couldn’t be in Egypt to become what I am today. So don’t be grief with yourself, for God has put you in my life for such as this. For all things work together for good to them that love God… Romans 8:28
Glory to God, Amen