“Lift
Up Your Head”
Some
time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of
Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was angry with his two
officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, and put them in custody in
the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was
confined. The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended
them.
After they had been in
custody for some time, each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the
king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and
each dream had a meaning of its own.
When Joseph came to
them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected. So he asked Pharaoh’s
officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look
so sad today?”
“We both had dreams,” they answered, “but
there is no one to interpret them.”
Then Joseph said to
them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
So the chief cupbearer
told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of
me, and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and
its clusters ripened into grapes. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the
grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”
“This is what it means,” Joseph said to him.
“The three branches are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your
head and restore you to your position, and you will
put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his
cupbearer. But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness;
mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.
Genesis
40:1-14
The chief cupbearer,
however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
Genesis
40:23
There are times in
homes for the elderly that every single patient is sad. They realize they have
outlived everyone else, and they question whether anyone will remember them.
Will anyone remember them when they pass from this life?
Scripture describes
Joseph’s experiences as he is trapped in prison.
We may feel forgotten.
Yet, like Joseph, we are not. Jesus sits at the right hand of God, and our
prayers reach the throne of the King within fail because our Savior is our
Mediator.
Jesus
never abandons or forgets His own.
Our
Daily Bread – August 19, 2013