Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers.
"Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and
moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me." 10When he told
his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What
is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come
and bow down to the ground before you?" (Genesis 37:9-10 NIV)
Joseph was nothing, if not determined, when it came to his
dreams. He certainly had a number of excuses to forsake his dreams. But he did
not. He clung tenaciously to those dreams; because he knew they came from God.
When we know we have seen the hand of God in our
dreams and visions, we are much more determined to remain focused on those
dreams. When we lose sight of their origin, we begin to waver and become
distracted.
Joseph recognized God’s hand in his dreams and
understood the importance of the plan God had to use Joseph to care for his
extended family. Being true to his dreams meant being true to his cause.
Johann Gutenberg was not satisfied with the status quo. What
did he do? He simply combined two previously unconnected ideas to create an
innovation. He refused to limit his thinking to the singular purpose of the
wine press or to the solitary use of the coin punch. One day he entertained an
idea no one else had ever thought of: “What if I took a bunch of coin punches
and put them under the force of the wine press so that they left their images
on paper instead of metal?” From that womb the printing press was born. The
Word of God was then able to be produced for the masses. What limits in your
thinking is God challenging today? —http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/index.php?aid=7698,
accessed July 17, 2013.
I can do everything through him who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:13 NIV)
Let us be determined to cling tenaciously to our
dreams, no matter what may come along to turn us away from them. Let us be true
to our cause.
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