We have begun a series studying the life of Joseph.
There is so much we can learn by studying how Joseph reacted to everything that happened to him in his life. Last week we looked at how Joseph had a dream. He shared this dream with his family who did not understand or appreciate his dream. Sometimes this will be true in our lives. Maybe it is family and maybe it friend.
Even Jesus was unable to minister in His own home town because they all knew Him as a child. They remember him running around in diapers, so how could He know anything.
The thing is, if you truly have a dream that has come from God, it will be BIG... really big. Those people who know you and have not heard from God like you have will see your dream as too big for you.
When others are presented with your dream they have two choices. Either they can recognize that the dream is bigger than you, know it is from God and be inspired. If God would do that for you He would do it for them. Unfortunately most people make the second choice. That is to tear down your dream. It may not be a conscious reasoning, but it is because they are threatened by you making something of yourself. After all they are just as unworthy of the dream in their heart as you are of the one in yours (without the blood of Christ, anyway). If you persevere and make it to your destiny, it makes them look bad because they could have done the same thng, but didn't.
So this last week we encouraged everyone to hold on to the dreams that you have in your heart and to not tear down someone else's dream just because you think it is too big. God dreams always are.
next week we'll begin to look at Joseph as a slave -- how he dealt with adversity when it lookd like his dream was dead.
