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WE have this new dog, Moose.
It’s pretty funny now, it’s quiet at home with no kids there.
Just the two of us.
In the evening, we will both be working on our computers or reading or watching TV then he hears something and he goes crazy.
Barking like there is no tommorow.
It is LOUD.
I tell you.
Many times have I spilled my coffee when he jumps up barking.
Michelle fusses at him as he runs to the door at the first sound.
You’d think he woudl be a great guard dog, but I don’t think so.
Because every person who comes in - in spite of his barking - is greeted with a wagging tail and a ball to throw.
He has never met a stranger.
Of course until he meets you, he doesn’t trust you.
Can you trust people you don’t know?
Maybe....but it’s hard, especially when things are going wrong.
I can understand that for our friends who don’t know God, have a hard time trusting him…especially when things keep going wrong…it’s especially hard.
When the person you love promised they would never do that again…but they did again.
Dealing an abusive relationship.
When they find out the tests are positive…when they thought they had beaten cancer the last time.
Only a cancer survivor can really understand and help another suffering from cancer
When you just knew they had finally kicked that habit, but then they fell off off the wagon one more time
falling off the wagon one more time
when your child walks out again.
IT’s not that things go wrong, but they keep going wrong.
Hard times aren’t unique to any of us and sometimes when it rains, it pours.
Only a recovering addict can really understand and help another addict
Only a parent who has lost a child can understand and help another parent who has lost a child
Hard times aren’t unique to any of us.
There are dozens of characters we could look at in the bible to teach us how to trust God when things keep going wrong, but I just want to focus on one.
The one who would be the root of the Israelites being in Egypt from our study in Exodus, which we are going back to next week by the way.
Sold to slave traders
Purchased by Pharaoh’s Captain
Things are turning up???
No It gets worse.
Accused of attempted rape.
Thrown in prison.
Makes some friends by interpreting dreams
Waits for them to get him out....things getting better…NO It gets worse
They forget about him.
It’s not until God gives Pharaoh a dream that no can understand, that someone remembers Joseph.
Pharaoh has a dream to be interpretted
It’s hard to trust when I only see short term
But Joseph is a fantastic story of trusting God when things keep going wrong.
Let’s look in .
JOseph…the baby brother.
Dad’s favorite.
Always reporting his brothers
Dream 1 Wheat…rule over us?
Dream 2 Sun, Moon, Stars bow
Later he’s at home w/dad brothers are out grazing flocks
Dad sent him out to check on them
They had serious family problems.
Have you ever had problems in your family that seemed like they wouldn’t work out?
Feuds and squabbles among family members who should love each other?
It seems like they will never end.
Sometimes it looks things are going to fall apart, sometimes they do.
When they do, it’s hard to trust God when we only see the short term.
It’s hard to trust God when I only see short term.
But Joseph had a dream.
Joseph saw there was more.
This wasn’t the end, even though it looked like it.
Listen to the words of David, another who knew a thing or two about bad things happening.
Look at vs 4, delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
It doesn’t say, delight in the Lord and he will make everything OK.
It says delight in Him and he will give you.....himself.
Don't focus on the short term things that will just get you through the moment, look down the road, focus on Him.
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Illustration.
A great illustration of this is right in our story.
Reuben - loved his father dearly, and thinking of him.....told his brothers don’t kill him, leave him in this well.....he was planning to come back and get Joseph and take him home.
What is it in your life that is telling you to take care of this right now? Have you tried to see it from God’s perspective or is the short term as far as you can see?
It’ll be easier to trust God when we start to look to the horizon.
You may have thought, yea....Joseph and David.
Life turned out pretty good for them.
We don’t have lives like that where everything works out nice with a pretty little bow on it like in the movies.
I would say, well along the way, Joseph didn’t know it would turn out.
As he was living his life, he didn’t know how it would work out.
But he kept looking ahead, because he knew God played the long game.
That there was more.
God play’s the long game
But not everyone saw that way.
Let’s go on in the story.
Plan was to throw him in the well and tell dad he had been killed.
But then Judah got to thinking…why kill him.
Let’s just sell him and get paid.
THat’s what they did, then went home and told their dad J had been attacked.
It seemed right to lie to their father…telling him his youngest son was dead.
That’s how our thinking is.
When we get caught up in our plans, our wisdom, it’s hard to trust God’s.
Its hard to trust when I give my own wisdom too much credit.
But what a burden to carry.
But what a burden to carry.
What do you think this did to their relationship with their father?
With each other?
With God?
They were too smart for their own good.
It seemed like the best way to handle things....but it wasn’t.
They thought they were digging themselves out of their Joseph problem…but they were actually burying themselves in a truth problem.
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If I’m “the Friend” my first step is to _______________
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