Dreams    

No man who is fit to live need fear to die. To us here, death is the most terrible thing we know. But when we have tasted its reality it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man; what home is to the exile; what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it a solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky. Our fears are the terror of children in the night. The night with its terrors, its darkness, its feverish dreams, is passing away; and when we awake it will be into the sunlight of God.  Thomas Fuller

I had a weird dream last night.  I dreamed I was working at Home Depot and I couldn’t find a ladder.  That is odd since everyone knows that ladders are plentiful at Home Depot.  I mean they are one of the home improvement capitals of the world. 

In the dream there was a customer who came in and she walked over to an isle and pointed to a baby bed displayed on the wall and told me she needed 90 baby beds like the one on display.  The last time I looked I didn’t see baby beds at Home Depot so I am not sure where it came from but I was a new employee at this store so I immediately went on the hunt for a ladder.  The problem was the guy that hired me didn’t give me a code for the cash register so I wasn’t going to get the commission for this sale because I couldn’t even check the lady out.  I felt like a hamster in a wheel.  I was running up and down the aisles looking for a ladder and getting nowhere.  Plus I didn’t even know if we had 90 baby beds in stock.

Sometimes when I wake up from a dream I think about it and it doesn’t make a lick of sense.  Maybe I was having flashbacks of my conversations with the utility companies but I was wearing myself out trying to help this lady buy 90 baby beds for who knows what purpose at a store that doesn’t sell baby beds.  That’s the great thing about dreams; anything can happen and often does.  I can fly in some of my dreams so I don’t know what that means either.  I do know that in this dream I couldn’t fly otherwise I wouldn’t have needed a ladder.

When I woke up from this nightmare I thought about how God gave Joseph the ability to interpret dreams for Pharoah and how it changed Joseph’s life. God was working in Joseph’s life from the time his brothers sold him until the day he interpreted the dream for Pharoah.  It was all the steps that had to happen in order for Joseph to save the children of Israel and all because of dreams. If you think about seven fat cows and seven gaunt cows, only God could explain it through Joseph.   

Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, I sometimes dream about strange stuff.  I only have my interpretation of them so if I am supposed to do something with them let me know.  Otherwise, I will continue to dream strange dreams and worship You.  Without Joseph’s interpretation of dreams we would not be where we are today.  Thank you loving us enough to save us.       

Scripture:   Then it came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh had a dream; and behold, he stood by the river. Suddenly there came up out of the river seven cows, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow.  Then behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ugly and gaunt, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.  And the ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.  He slept and dreamed a second time; and suddenly seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, plump and good. Then behold, seven thin heads, blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them.  And the seven thin heads devoured the seven plump and full heads. So Pharaoh awoke, and indeed, it was a dream.  Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.  Genesis 41:1-8

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do:  The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years; the dreams are one. And the seven thin and ugly cows which came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty heads blighted by the east wind are seven years of famine. This is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.  Indeed seven years of great plenty will come throughout all the land of Egypt; but after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine will deplete the land.  So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe.  And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.  Genesis 41:25-32