Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
God is the only One Who takes people, institutions, communities and
nations out of obscurity into global limelight and prominence. This is because
He is the only One Who has the capacity do so. The biblical Joseph was already
imprisoned for life and had no chances of ever getting out of prison. But God
created situations which made Joseph sought after. God had equipped Joseph with
great people skills as well as the divine ability to interpret dreams and also
blessed him with divine favor.
So Joseph was able to reach out to his fellow prisoners – Pharaoh’s
baker and butler who were serving prison terms. But for the worrisome dreams
which Joseph interpreted, the butler would not have known about Joseph’s
ability to interpret dreams and recommend him to Pharaoh. What is also
significant here is the divine arrangement – the baker and the butler were in
the same prison as Joseph and were serving different sentences at the same
time. Talk about divine timing and divine connection. Even after the butler was
freed and restored to his position in the palace, there was no respite for
Joseph as he still remained in prison – two full years. But when it was time,
God’s appointed time to favor Zion, God orchestrated events to work for Joseph.
Pharaoh dreamt; very worrisome dreams which took away his peace.
He became restless especially when all the supposedly wise men of
Egypt could not interpret the dreams. That was when Mr. Butler who had
supposedly forgotten about Joseph remembered – Joseph could just possibly solve
this problem and he mentioned Joseph to Pharaoh.
Beloved, ponder a while! What if Joseph had been released from prison
before then and no one could account for his whereabouts, he would have missed
the divine opportunity to stand before Pharaoh and achieve his dream of global
leadership. Sometimes, what appears to be working against you because they are
the wicked schemes of wicked human beings; designed to immobilize you and stop
your progress may be divine orchestrations and even when they are not; they
could be circumstances allowed by God to pan out for His overall good in your
life when He makes all things beautiful in His time.
Joseph eventually stood before Pharaoh and not only interpreted
Pharaoh’s dreams but also provided the solutions to the challenges created by
the dreams. In an instant, in a single day, Joseph moved from being an unknown
obscure prisoner without hope of freedom to become Prime Minister in Egypt.
Some great leap, you would say but that is the doing of God Who alone always
has the capacity to take anyone out of the back side of the desert and
obscurity into global limelight, relevance, significance and honor.
Esther was an orphan living with her older cousin Mordecai, a man of
.low social and economic standing in Shushan. He was one of the gatemen at the
palace in Shushan. Yet both rose to the citadel of power in Shushan. Esther
became queen while Mordecai became second in command to the king. The wonderful
story of these two cousins illustrates how God in His infinite mercy and grace
takes His people out of the dust and ash heap positions; obscure positions which
condemn people to low social economic standing to positions of power, global
limelight and honor, relevance as well as high social and economic standing.
An unfortunate incident in the palace contributed to the ouster of
queen Vashti and created room for Esther to emerge queen in the land. All
Esther did to occupy this vantage position of a city set on a hill was to
participate in the search for a queen contest which she won effortlessly
because God’s divine favor accompanied her wherever she turned.
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