ARE YOU A MISFIT?

Do you ever fill like a

Misfit?????????????

I do...

Imagine how Joseph must have felt.

God gave Joseph Dreams.

(sound familiar to any of you?)


Joseph in his excitement I'm sure ran to tell his brothers. Not stopping to think how they might respond.

Genesis 37 tells us that Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him all the more for what he said.

Did God stop giving Joseph dreams in fear he might get hurt by what his brothers said?
....NO....

Verse 9 if Genesis 37 tell us that God gave Joseph yet another dream and once again Joseph ran to tell his brothers.

This time the scripture tells us that Joseph's father rebuked him. Joseph I'm sure continued to share with his family all that the Lord was telling him. And things seemed to only get worse. The brothers conspired to kill Joseph, but God had a PLAN. The brothers end up selling Joseph into slavery

From the place of slavery, to the prison dungeons God raises Joseph up to be over all of Egypt and Joseph's dreams do come true.

And consider this the next time God tells you something that takes awhile to come to pass, Joseph's dreams took years to come to pass. GOD IS NOT BEHIND TIME ON ANYTHING HE GIVES YOU...HE CAN BE TRUSTED!

Many times God calls us to a task in this life that carries with it situations that are not always pleasant . In fact many of us feel like Misfits... Some times the words spoken to us feel like stones, and the bruises stay around for awhile. But God soothes our hurts. And the excitement of knowing Him...of hearing His voice...and following Him far out way the pain!

Next time someones words are coming at you like stones remember what Jesus endured and the words He tells us in Hebrews 12:3 "Just think of Him who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself(consider it in comparison with your trial) SO THAT you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds."

I write these words tonight for those of you like me whose coat of many colors (whatever robe the Lord has placed on you) is looking a little torn and tattered from the stones that have been hurled at you from the mouth of others..Say with me what Jesus said "Father forgive them, they know not what they do."