Ready, Set, Go!

Two years later Pharoah had a dream. He was standing beside the Nike, when seven healthy-looking, well fed cows came up from the nike and began to graze among the reeds. After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, cam up from the Ni,e and stood beside those cows along the bank of the Nile.

The sickly, thin cows ate the healthy, well-fed cows. Then Pharoah woke up. He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk. After then seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharoah woke up, and it was only a dream.

When morning came he was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharoah told them his dream but no one could interpret it.

Then the cupbearer said to Pharoah, "today I remember my faults. Pharoah had been angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guards he and I had dreams on the same night: each dream had its own meaning.

Now a young Hebrew, a slave of the captiain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, he interpreted our dreams for us, and each had its own interpretation. It turned out just the way he interpreted them to us, I was restored to my position and the other man was hanged."

Then Pharoah sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon. He shaved and changed his clothes, and went to Pharoah. Genesis 41:1-14

Finally Joseph's time had come. God had given him the ability to interpret dreams and now the greatest man in the land needed him. Joseph not only interpreted the dream but went on the advise the Pharoah how to prepare for the coming famine. Pharoah was so impressed he gave Joseph the job of overseeing the management of the plan. His position was second in command to Pharoah. From slave to second in command in an hour of time but having waited for perhaps 12 years.

Now I would say Joseph would have been a little gobsmacked. I know I would have been. But God knew he was ready. When God is ready it is all systems go.

Are you ready? I am constantly preparing for what is coming, I want to be ready when God moves. Ther is no time to slack off. Preparation requires diligence. I do not want to have waited for nothing. I want the prize. How about you?