DREAMS OF YOUR YOUTH

Genesis 40 --Though Joseph was given the ability to interpret dreams of his fellow prisoners and even of the Pharaoh, he was not given any new dreams or understandings of his own dilemma. He expressed his confusion and frustration to his cellmate, the butler in Gen. 40:15. He had to rely on the dreams of his youth, which made no sense at the time. I'm sure he longed to be given dreams again, but alas, silence prevailed from heaven. We must sometimes hang on to the dreams God gave us in the past and doubt not! As the psalmist wrote in Ps. 23, "though I walk though the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil." David had been called by God to be a king in his youth; he still remembered the feeling of oil dripping from his head as Samuel anointed him. But now he was a hunted man by the current king, Saul. David clung on to the promise and calling he received in his youth. So must we.