STEPS TOWARD SPIRITUAL MATURITY
Joseph: Man Of Faith...Image Of Christ
by Ron Ritchie
In l983 I was fifty, and my son Ron, Jr. was about to turn twenty-one. So
I invited him out to dinner at a local restaurant to celebrate his passage
into responsible manhood. At the same time I wanted to have a last man-to-man
conversation with him about all the spiritual and practical principles I
had learned in my fifty years on this earth about my relationship with the
Lord, women, money, and the choice of a career. We had a wonderful dinner,
and then during dessert I asked him if I could share some of these things.
He said he would really like that. So I began laying out some basic principles
of life, and some of my mistakes as well as some of my successes. He sat
there listening for more than an hour, and then when I was finished I asked
him if he had any comments or questions. I will never forget his mature
response:
"Dad, I heard every word you said. But could I just ask you one question?"
"Yes, of course," I said.
"Do I have to be fifty at twenty-one?" my beloved first-born asked.
For as he listened he understood that physical, emotional, and spiritual
maturity doesn't happen overnight, but it is a process that continues over
a lifetime, and he was hoping that I also understood that.
The process of maturity is what we will consider as we again look at the
life of Joseph the patriarch in Genesis 40-41.
In Genesis 37-39 we found that Joseph, the eleventh and most beloved son
of Jacob, had been given two dreams in which his family would bow down before
him sometime and someplace in the future (Revelation 12). This caused his
brothers' hearts to become filled with hatred to the point of murder. They
sold him to some traveling Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt and in turn
sold him as a slave to Potiphar, the captain of the Pharaoh's guard. In
Pharaoh's house God was with him and richly blessed everything he touched,
so much so that he became second in command of the house and fields. However,
Potiphar's wife falsely accused Joseph of attempted rape, and he was placed
in the king's dungeon. While he was in prison the warden saw his administrative
ability and put him in charge of the whole prison including all the prisoners.
The secret of Joseph's success in Potiphar's house and then in the prison
was the spiritual reality that "the LORD was with Joseph." And
as we have seen and will continue to see in this story, Joseph was a man
of faith and an image of Christ.
Now, it appears that Joseph came into Potiphar's house at the age of seventeen,
and he would become vice-president of Egypt at the age of thirty (see 41:46).
It is unclear how long he was working in Potiphar's house, but we do know
that he spent more than two years in the Egyptian dungeon (see the terms
"for some time" in 40:4, and "two full years had passed"
in 41:1). But it was during these thirteen years that Joseph matured in
his spiritual walk with the Lord. He had to hold onto the revelation God
had given him that one day God would place him in a position of power and
honor. From his life we can gain much insight to help us in our own process
of becoming spiritually mature. According to Paul's letter to the Ephesians
(4:15), "...We are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head
[of the body], even Christ." Becoming spiritually mature takes time
for all followers of Christ, and our Lord may use a variety of trials, temptations,
and persecutions to bring us to the place where we can be used by him to
the blessing of others in the body of Christ and to our own personal joy.
One of the first lessons we all need to learn is to....
Trust in God regardless of the circumstances
Genesis 40:1-23
We'll take a brief look at chapter 40, then spend more time on chapter 41.
As our story opens Joseph might have been about twenty-eight years old when
Pharoah threw his chief cupbearer and chief baker into jail, and the captain
of the guard (who could have still been Potiphar) assigned them to him.
One morning he found them in a state of depression because they couldn't
interpret the dreams they had had the night before. (The Egyptians had a
belief, widespread in antiquity, that "sleep puts us in real and direct
contact with the other world where not only the dead but also the gods dwell.
Dreams therefore are a gift from the gods." (Vergote, Joseph en
Egypte.) Joseph took advantage of this "teachable moment"
and told them of his relationship with Yahweh, the one and only living
God in this land of hundreds of manmade gods. And then he asked them, "Do
not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams." Joseph's attitude
was consistent with the Old Testament's rejection of occult practices and
its reliance on prophecy as a means of discovering God's will (see Deuteronomy
18:10-22).
Dreams are a sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc. passing through
a sleeping person's mind. Some dreams, because of their clarity, are the
seeds for poetic and musical invention, scientific solutions, and spiritual
perceptions. Some dreams are just the revelation of our true nature, because
in dreams there are no moral or ethical restrictions, and the images are
filled with sinful actions and selfish hopes and goals (see Mark 7:20-23).
(We are like computers: "Garbage in, garbage out.") Some dreams
have spiritual content that God uses to speak to the godly, such as Abraham,
Jacob, and Joseph; and the ungodly, such as King Abimelech (see Genesis
20:3-7).
In this story God wanted to use Joseph as his instrument to interpret the
dreams of others. At this time Joseph didn't know that his spiritual ability
to interpret these dreams would eventually be used of God to bring him into
the presence of Pharaoh, who in turn would be the instrument of God to fulfill
the dreams God had given to Joseph when he was seventeen years old in Hebron,
Israel.
The chief cupbearer was not only responsible for tasting Pharaoh's wine
for drugs or poison before he drank it, but he was also a trusted political
advisor. Verses 9-19:
So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him,
"In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, and on the vine were three
branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into
grapes. Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and put the cup in his hand."
"This is what it means," Joseph said to him. "The three branches
are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore
you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as
you used to do when you were his cupbearer. But when all goes well with
you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me
out of this prison. For I was forcibly carried off from the land of the
Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon."
When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation,
he said to Joseph, "I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets
of bread. In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but
the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."
"This is what it means," Joseph said. "The three baskets
are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang
you on a tree. And the birds will eat away your flesh."
Three days later Pharaoh had a birthday party and invited the chief cupbearer
and the chief baker to attend. He restored the chief cupbearer and hung
the chief baker, just as Joseph had said. The chief cupbearer, however,
forgot all about Joseph.
As Joseph suffered unjustly in prison before he was released and placed
on a throne, so Christ came to this earth to suffer unjustly on our behalf.
As the writer to the Hebrews would tell all of us, "...let us run with
endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the
author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne
of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against
Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart" (Hebrews 12:1-3).
First the cross, then the crown.
When fear overtakes us at times, we need to stop and remember that the Lord
is still with us, then review the truth we find in Joseph's story: In spite
of our desires to the contrary, we do find ourselves in these dungeon experiences,
but God uses them to mature us. And spiritual maturity begins with learning
to live by faith in God regardless of the immediate circumstances. Faith
is the belief in invisible realities (Hebrews 11:1-2). The Lord was invisible
but ever present with Joseph and blessing him. And so by faith Joseph depended
on the Lord to give him the ability to interpret the dreams of Pharaoh's
cupbearer and baker.
The next step in the process of becoming spiritually mature is to...
Stop trusting in ourselves
Genesis 41:1-16
When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was
standing by the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek
and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows,
ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.
And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows.
Then Pharaoh woke up.
He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy
and good, were growing on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads
of grain sprouted---thin and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of
grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up;
it had been a dream.
In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and
wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret
them for him.
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I am reminded of my
shortcomings. Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned
me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. Each of
us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard.
We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man
the interpretation of his dream. And things turned out exactly as he interpreted
them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon.
When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and no one can interpret it.
But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret
it."
"I cannot do it," Joseph replied to Pharaoh, "but God will
give Pharaoh the answer he desires."
Two years have passed, and Joseph was thirty years old but still in the
Egyptian dungeon waiting on his Lord. Then one night God gave Pharaoh two
dreams. Kings were thought to be close to the divine realm, so they were
often credited with revelatory dreams according to the ancient oriental
texts. The Pharaoh was troubled and sent for all the magicians and wise
men of Egypt to interpret his dreams. They had four clues out of their Egyptian
religion: First, seven was a sacred number sometimes symbolizing fate (for
the Hebrews it symbolized completion, based on Genesis 1-2,where God created
the world in seven days). Second, the reeds by the banks of Nile symbolized
the vegetation alongside the Nile. Third, the Nile was both the basis and
the symbol of Egypt's power and wealth, for as it overflowed it became the
source of the fertility of the land. And fourth, the cows were the symbol
of Egypt as well as one of their goddesses, Isia. Isia was the goddess of
the all-sustaining earth, and in the hieroglyphics the cow represented the
earth, agriculture, and food. But even with these four clues the magicians
were unable to provide any spiritual wisdom or reasonable interpretation.
Job would later write during his season of suffering (12:13-22),
"To God belong wisdom and power;
counsel and understanding are his...
He leads counselors away stripped
and makes fools of judges...
He silences the lips of trusted advisers
and takes away the discernment of elders...
He reveals the deep things of darkness
and brings deep shadows into night."
But finally the cupbearer remembered Joseph and told Pharaoh about his dream
as well as the baker's dream, and how this Hebrew prisoner had interpreted
them both to the letter: "I was restored to my position, and the other
man was hanged." So Pharaoh sent for Joseph and brought him out of
the dungeon. Then they shaved him (the Egyptians hated hair and would shave
all the hair off their bodies and then wear wigs), changed his clothes,
and brought him before the king. Joseph, the former shepherd, slave, and
then prisoner, stood before the king of Egypt. The king repeated the dreams
to Joseph with the hope, based on the story of his cupbearer, that he would
be able to interpret them. Joseph once again gave honor and glory to Yahweh,
saying, "I cannot do it, but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires."
Joseph was again an image of Christ in his dependence on God. "I am
the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in Him, he bears
much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing...Just as the Father has
loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments,
and abide in His love" (John15:5-10).
Learning to live by faith in God regardless of the circumstances and no
longer trusting in ourselves are both possible when we are...
Filled with the Spirit of God
Genesis 41:17-38
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream I was standing
on the bank of the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows,
fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other
cows came up---scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly
cows in all the land of Egypt. The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat
cows that came up first. But even after they ate them, no one could tell
that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
In my dreams I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on
a single stalk. After them, seven other heads sprouted---withered and thin
and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the
seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none could explain it
to me."
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the
same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good
cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years;
it is one and the same dream. The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward
are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched
by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.
"It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is
about to do. Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land
of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance
in Egypt will be forgotten, and famine will ravage the land. The abundance
in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will
be so severe. The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is
that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.
And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge
of the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to
take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and
store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities
for food. This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used
during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the
country may not be ruined by the famine."
The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials. So Pharaoh asked
them, "Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit
of God?"
When Pharaoh told Joseph about his two dreams, he added a little more insight
to the dream about the cows: The second herd of seven were the ugliest cows
he had ever seen in Egypt, and even after they ate the first seven they
were not any fatter. Then Joseph told him by the power of the Lord God of
Israel, "Both dreams mean the same thing. God has told Pharaoh what
he is about to do in Egypt. The seven fat cows and full heads of grain are
seven years, and the seven ugly cows and worthless heads of grain scorched
by the east wind are seven years of famine." The ugliness of the thin
cows represented evil in contrast to the good. Joseph is the embodiment
of the ideal of true wisdom. The ability to discern between good and evil
comes only from God. Blessings were to come through Joseph to his own people
as well as to all the nations, according to the covenant of God.
"My God Yahweh has revealed to you that Egypt will experience
seven wonderful years of abundance for its people, but then the famine will
be so bad that no one will remember the 'good old days.' The reason the
dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly
decided by God, and God will do it soon." At that moment Joseph was
cast in the role of a prophet of God, as Abraham (see 20:7), Isaac (see
27:27-29) and Jacob (see 48:15-49:27) had been before him.
But Joseph not only interpreted the dreams; he then gave wise discernment
on how to deal with the coming famine: "Pharaoh, here is what you need
to do as soon as possible: (1) Find a discerning and wise man and put him
in charge of the land of Egypt. (2) Appoint commissioners over the land
to take a fifth of all the grain from the farmers each harvest and store
it during the seven good years to be used during the seven years of famine,
so that the nation will not be ruined by the famine."
Pharaoh and all his officials liked the plan of Joseph. "So what we
need to do is find a man just like this man, one in whom is the spirit of
God [the spirit of Elohim, the spirit of supernatural wisdom and
insight]."
Here Joseph was an image of Christ in that, as Moses said of the One God
would send, "The Lord God shall raise up for you a prophet like me
from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed in everything He says to
you. And it shall be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall
be utterly destroyed from among the people." (Acts 3:22-23; see also
Deuteronomy 18:15.)
Spiritual maturity begins with learning to live by faith in God regardless
of the immediate circumstances, followed by no longer trusting in ourselves,
which are both possible when we are filled with the Spirit of God. Then
we can meet the goal of spiritual maturity, which is getting into a position
where God can bless many people through us. However, as Joseph spent thirteen
long years in slavery and prison before God would begin to bring blessing
through him, we need to be aware of the danger of getting into a position
of leadership before our time. If that happens, we may end up hurting many
people. At the same time, we find that God uses us all the time in the midst
of the ongoing process of maturing us. And as we allow the Spirit of God
to rule in us, eventually we can...
Allow the Lord to raise us up
Genesis 41:39-57
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made all this
known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. You shall be
in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders.
Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you."
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I hereby put you in charge of the whole
land of Egypt." Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and
put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put
a gold chain around his neck. He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command,
and men shouted before him, "Make way!" Thus he put him in charge
of the whole land of Egypt.
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your word no
one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt." Pharaoh gave Joseph the name
Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,
to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.
Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king
of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout
Egypt. During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully.
Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance
in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown
in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain,
like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records
because it was beyond measure.
Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath
daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh
and said, "It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and
all my father's household." The second son he named Ephraim and said,
"It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."
The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end, and the seven years
of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other
lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food. When all Egypt began
to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told
all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph and do what he tells you."
When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened the storehouses
and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.
And all the countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the
famine was severe in all the world.
The king was encouraged to believe Joseph, because in contrast to the complexity
the magicians had put into their attempts to interpret his dreams, Joseph's
interpretation was clear and practical. Notice that the Egyptian rulers
didn't like to work! (1) Potiphar turned everything over to Joseph, (2)
the prison warden turned everything over to Joseph, and (3) now the Pharaoh
turned everything over to Joseph (of course, in each case Joseph was under
their authority).
So Joseph was put in charge of the whole land of Egypt (the fulfillment
of his first dream). He was given the Pharaoh's signet ring of authority
and dressed in robes of fine linen (remember, his brothers took the first
one). He was given a gold chain around his neck and a private chariot. Men
shouted before him, "Make way!" He was second in command in Egypt,
having the final word after Pharaoh.
There are numerous examples of Semites rising to positions of
great authority in Egypt from the Middle Kingdom...and New Kingdom periods.
One of the most striking parallels from the time of Akhenaton is that of
Titu, who, among other offices, was appointed "highest mouth in the
whole country." This last title meant that he had total authority in
the special task he was given and was responsible only to the Pharaoh. It
is one of the titles that Joseph is supposed to have had. The wall paintings
on the tomb at Tell el-Amarna show Titu's appointment by the Pharaoh, who
is putting the golden necklace of office around his neck. They also show
him leaving the palace, getting into his chariot and riding off as the people
prostrate themselves before him in acclamation. (Word Biblical Commentary,
Volume 2, Gordon Wenham.)
He was given Potiphera's daughter Asenath in marriage. (Potiphera was a
priest of On, the sun god, and his daughter belonged to the goddess Neit.
From a very early date there was a celebrated temple of the sun god in Egypt.
It had a learned priesthood, and it held the first place among the priest
colleges of Egypt.)
Pharaoh changed Joseph's name to Zaphenath-Paneah ("Support/Sustainer
of Life") with reference to the call entrusted to him by God. Joseph
would become the preserver of Egypt as well as his own family. For the next
seven years, Joseph went throughout Egypt collecting a fifth of the abundant
wheat harvest and storing it in the cities surrounded by the respective
fields. There was so much wheat that he stopped keeping records.
Joseph and Asenath had two son before the famine. The first was named Manasseh
("God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household").
We might wonder what "forget...all my father's household" meant.
It could not have meant that he had really forgotten, or he would not have
mentioned it. It may have meant that he now saw that the days of evil and
struggle had been erased by the joy of his new position as vice-president
of Egypt, in which he could bring blessings not only to the nations but
to his own family as well. Others have thought that it referred to the spiritual
insight that God was going to use him as shown in his two dreams, and his
time as a slave had all been part of the plan for his life to bring glory
to God and blessings to the nations as well as to his own family.
Joseph's other son was named Ephraim ("God has made me fruitful in
the land of my suffering"). Joseph's suffering was real, but out of
it came an abundant life. He had suffered physically and emotionally as
a slave, but he was spiritually fruitful as he realized he was a partial
fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant in which blessing would come to many.
Ephraim would become one of the most fruitful tribes (see Deuteronomy 33:17).
Both names have a note of thankfulness to the God who preserves and blesses.
Both confirm God's promise: "I am with you" (see 39:3, 21, 23).
Thus Joseph was expressing his faith that God had been with him and had
blessed him. This brings to mind Psalm 105:1, 16-19:
"Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name,
make known among the nations what he has done...
[God] called down famine on the land
and destroyed all their supplies of food;
and he sent a man before them---
Joseph, sold as a slave.
They bruised his feet with shackles,
his neck was put in irons,
till what he foretold came to pass,
till the word of the LORD proved him true."
The great famine of the prophecy finally arrived, and it affected not only
Egypt but other lands including Israel, where Joseph's family lived in Hebron.
But because of the wisdom of Joseph there was now food in Egypt. When the
people of Egypt went to Pharaoh and cried out to him for food, he told them
to go to Joseph. Joseph then opened the storehouses and sold to the people
the grain that he had been storing for the last seven years. Then the word
got out, and all the countries that were affected by the famine also began
sending their people to Egypt to purchase grain. And once again this was
part of the fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant as stated by God to Jacob
in a dream: "...In you and in your descendants shall all the families
of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 28:14.)
As Joseph was moved by God from the position of a slave to that of a prophet
and ruler, so we can see in him the image of Jesus' exaltation before his
humiliation. As all were to bow before Joseph, so all shall bow before Jesus:
...When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity
and took on the status of a slave, became human!...It was an incredibly
humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived
a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death---and
the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion.
Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond
anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth---even
those long ago dead and buried---will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ,
and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor
of God the Father. (Philippians 2:6-11 in The Message, a modern
paraphrase by Eugene Peterson.)
Spiritual maturity begins with (1) learning to live by faith in God regardless
of the immediate circumstances. The next step is to (2) no longer trust
in ourselves. All this is possible when we are (3) filled with the Spirit
of God. And then we (4) allow the Lord to raise us up at the right time
to serve him all the days of our lives.
No, we don't have to be fifty at twenty-one. But the Lord wants us to allow
him to begin the process of making us spiritually mature, to his glory,
our joy, and the blessing and saving of many lives.
Catalog No. 4419
Genesis 40:1-41:57
Third Message
Ron Ritchie
January 15, 1995
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