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     Be careful who you tell your dreams to

The story of Joseph in the bible shows us how people react when they hear about  your dreams the minute you decide to tell them. I have decided to use this story of Joseph to bring about the real meaning of what this book is about. This also brings about the reality of perception that even the bible points out to show us that our most enemies are the members of our families. This has happened many times in most cases when people started to take decisions about their dream careers where members of the family started to divert them towards what they think is good for them. But in this case of Joseph it is the worst case scenario where his brothers were totally envious of him to the point that they even contemplated to kill him. If it was not for his brother Reuben he would have been a dead man before his dream came to reality.

 

Joseph, the son of Jacob whose sons who were also Joseph's siblings decided to act before hand to hinder the outcomes of the dream he had before it even came to its fulfilment. They were driven by the thought that should Joseph’s dream came to reality they would be obliged to treat him as their senior even though he was their youngest brother, their father’s last born. There could be some people in this case who would have said”, it’s just a dream not a reality. But in Joseph's case his brothers were bothered by the fact that the dream could be fulfilled. This means that, in this world there are two kinds of people who receive our dreams. There are those who say it is just a dream and those who are afraid that the dream might be fulfilled. But the amusing thing is how both these people react when the dream become fulfilled. Both of them want to be there to witness the fulfilment of the dream. Some of them wouldn’t even hesitate to make sure that their names show the appearance in the mentioning of the dream come true period. They would not seem to bother to climb while the cart us moving as long as they will go away with a big chunk of credit that they did not even toiled for. Even it means they will take all the glory to themselves, forgetting the fact that God said He will not give the glory to the other. When fate decided it us your time to shine , you will shine anyway. Like in the case of Joseph. Although his brothers decided to sell him to the strangers as a slave to stop the fulfilment of his dream, this did not stop Joseph to become who he was meant to become. After they sold him he landed in the hands of Pharaoh who made him a governor because he managed to interpret a dream which other people in the highest positions in Egypt could not interpret. You see? Joseph was elevated by the Pharaoh's dream so that his dream may be fulfilled.

Now, Joseph's mistake was to tell his dream to wrong people at the wrong time. The timing was all wrong because he was not his siblings' s best friend at that time for he was their father' s favourite son who he birthed at an old age. Jacob, his father even made him a special garment out of expensive cloth which was later dipped in blood when his brothers decided to sell him. This was made with the intention to trick their father into believing that Joseph was killed by wild animals while tending the sheep in the veldt. The cloak was delivered with the bad news that Joseph, the favourites son of Jacob was devoured by animals and the blooded cloak was an evidence of such tragedy. I can imagine how Jacob cried himself to sleep when he received the news. I guess it did not bother them at all to see their father wailing as long as Joseph' dream according to them was not going to be fulfilled. Joseph was most loved because he was the last born but this did not mean anything to his brothers. What rubbed salt to their wounds of not being the favourites was the dream that Joseph told them. He told them that he saw himself as a moon amongst the eleven stars who bowed before the moon.

Now there comes a problem. He is going to be a great moon amongst the stars. This piece of news did not sit well with his brothers. They saw a problem forth coming and decided to stop it before it came to pass. One thing they did not realise is that in realms of the spirit the dream was already fulfilled. This is always the case with dreams. They are produced in the spiritual realm in a manner that the enemies can think that they are not real. Once the reality strikes the animosity starts.

Even though the outcomes of Joseph' s dream did not start well. It first had him landed in jail. Hiss boss’s wife could not resist him because he was carrying a big dream. She seduced him and when he refused to fall into the trap, she had him arrested by her furious husband because she accused him of making sexual advances towards her although it was her who initiated the deed. Unfortunately for Joseph, it was her word against his. He was sent to jail for the sin he did not commit.

Once again a dream came to Pharaoh while he was sleeping. He had trusted team of wise men and fortune tellers who were expected to interpret his dream as they usually did. They could have interpreted the dream right there and then but it was hidden from the them. That is the irony of the dreams. Sometimes they come in a different angle we while their meaning says something else. In this case of Pharaoh it came to save Joseph from jail while it was meant to warn Pharaoh of the coming wrath of God. God used Joseph who was in jail to interpret a dream for a free man. How ironic dreams can be sometimes.

The man who was with Joseph in the cell asked him for a favour. He said” remember me when things go well for you and mention my name to Pharaoh. This man was the one who recommended Joseph to Pharaoh. He sent a word to Pharaoh and Joseph was summoned immediately and brought before Pharaoh to help fathom the mystery that was before Pharaoh. and that was the beginning of the journey of the materialization of the dream. Even his tormentors (his brothers) benefited from his dream as they became part his journey to the promise land which was their grandfather's dream. this means that our dreams come true when there  are people who are there to push us to the right direction.

RELIGION

   WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK ABOUT GOD?

We are living in the last days where everyone believes all they want to believe as far as the existence of God is concerned. In democratic countries, there is even the freedom of choice in terms of who people want to believe. And this is not disputed as everyone has right to region of their choice. The problem starts when it comes to chose the kind of God or a god people want to worship.

We grew up in cultural societies where we were made to believe that there are ancestors. In this form of religion we were taught that our forefathers who died a long time ago are the ones who are higher powers and they are in guard of our lives. The sacrifices are made to appease the silent people. In this instance, it is believed that the dead will shine their faces towards the living(us) and shower them with blessings. There is a lot that is done to follow this procedure including visiting the graves and sometimes go to the river to appease the dead who are living in water. This is done with much faith and assurance in so much that eve those who were in big cities because of employment are collected to attend the ceremony. After the ceremony they are sent off to their places of work with the assurance that they are blessed.

It is when they arrive in their place of work that their way of seeing things is changed. Some receive new teachings and become converted to other religions. That is where the  diversity of religion came about. The high influx of people in the cities to look for a better lifestyle. 

Now things have changed. People are free to believe what they want to believe in so much that many kinds of religious beliefs were born. We have the atheistic ideas where some people believe that there is no God at all. Some believe in their ancestors while others believe in Christ. Christians and non-Christians collide in their ideas of expressing their beliefs.

This does not come as surprise because even those who were walking with Jesus did not exactly know who He was. Some said He was John the Baptist while others said He was a prophet from old. There were those who were already convinced that He was not the son of God as He claimed to be. 

Now here are the comments made by some well known public figures whom most people are looking up to. These public figures happened to be atheists (they believe that God does not exist). Angelina Jolie once said '' there's something in every human that is Godlike so there doesn't need to be a God for me''. These words proved that she was not a religious person and rather than that she is an atheist. 

Bill Gates, the micro soft billionaire said that there is a lot that he can do on a Sunday morning rather wasting his time going to church. the question, ' does God exist appears more often in the philosophical point of view. they answer this question by saying that if  God id unable to prevent evil from happening then there is no God. 

The bible says that God is a jealous God, He is not pleased when a man makes himself a god to worship. This does not stop men from believing to their own gods. The black people believe in their ancestors and the Muslims believe in their god, so does the Indians and Chinese. In the book of ACTS Apostle Paul was amazed when he saw  strangers who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new things. Then he stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, ''Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you'' The interesting part in this is that Paul himself was against God before he became an Apostle.  The same thing happened to the renowned atheist and philosopher, Anthony Flew who spent most of his life disputing the fact that God exists, until in 2004 where he surprised his followers by saying that God does exist after all. He died in 2011 believing in the existence of God. So, doe this mean that everyone will come to the same conclusion that there is only one God, the God of Heavens.

they are blessed and their ways are 

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