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Be prepared
We used to take high schoolers down to Mexico once a year to cook food for people who were building homes for the poor in Tijuana.
There’s one particular trip that stands out as the worst trip of all time.
Karen and I loaded up a few students from the youth group into her Ford Aerostar, and we drove down to Rosarito.
It was really close to the beach.
We had the cool coastal air in the mornings and the evening.
But it was also Spring Break.
In the middle of April.
And when April comes, you can expect April showers.
Only this year, it was more like April Monsoons.
It rained so hard that week.
You could see the ocean from where we camped.
It was
It was absolutely miserable.
Karen and I took a few students from the youth
We definitely weren’t prepared for what was coming.
My brother and I slept in a tent, but it was more like a water bed.
You could feel the water gushing underneath the tent as we laid in it.
Karen slept in her Aerostar, and I believe her window had a leak, so she was wet even in her car.
And when we were outside, it was even worse.
To keep our feet dry we would take those plastic bags, that you used to get for free from the grocery store, I’m not bitter, and we put our feet in those, before putting our shoes on.
We clopped around in the rain, and the mud and the clay.
Clay and mud, built up on the bottom of our shoes.
Making each of us about 3-4 inches taller.
But also meaning our shoes weighed a couple pounds more.
The bummer of the week, was we were there to cook.
We may not have wanted to cook.
I’d much rather have been inside, next to a fireplace drinking a cup of hot cocoa, but that was not an option.
We were there to prepare food for the campers, and there were still campers.
And these campers needed to eat.
The low point was when we were boiling some chicken to make chicken enchiladas.
Our stove sunk into the ground, and fell over, spilling the chicken and hot water on the ground.
I’ll never forget that moment.
Karen and I looked at each other.
Sighed.
We didn’t say a word.
We brushed off as much mud as we could, put the chicken back in the pot, and continued boiling it.
What could you do?
Our spirits were broken.
But we continued.
We were not prepared for that week.
We should have had better shoes.
We should have had rain gear.
We made it home, and I made sure I bought better equipment for the next trip.
I promised myself, I would be prepared for the next time I went down there.
I would take action.
I bought rain clothes.
Better socks.
Better boots.
I would be prepared.
And in the same way, God has allowed for there to be variety in life.
There’s times of sorrow.
And there’s times of joy.
A baby is born - and you celebrate.
There is a death - and you grieve.
There’s things that you’d like to do over again.
And there’s things that you hope you never have to do again.
We know that God is sovereign over all of these things.
We tell ourselves that.
But the question is, how do we function through these things.
How do we faithfully respond to the will of God?
Especially when it seems to be contrary to what we think it is or should be?
So that is what we will see today, 3 ways to faithfully respond to God’s will.
If you have your Bibles, you can open them up to .
It’s where we will be.
I’m not going to read the chapter, because of it’s length, but feel free to follow along.
First, we see how to Faithfully seek the God’s direction.
The last time we met Joseph, he was in prison.
He’s been put into a secret Egyptian prison.
It’s no Holiday Inn.
It’s a dark place.
Later on it’s described as a pit.
He’s unkempt.
His hair and beard grow long.
He’s dirty.
And Joseph is forgotten here.
There’s no term length to his sentence.
He could be in jail 5 years.
He could be in jail 50 years.
It’s as long as they feel like keeping him.
While Joseph is forgotten in prison, Pharaoh has a couple of dreams.
You can read about them in verses 2-8.
He dreams that out of the Nile river come 7 pretty, and well fed cows.
And they eat.
Boy do they eat.
Then after them came 7 scrawny, ugly cows.
And they ate the nice fat and plump cows.
He wakes up, “Phew it was only a dream”, and goes back to sleep.
Then he has a second dream.
This time there are 7 healthy ears of grain that pop up.
Just perfect for eating.
Then 7 ugly, diseased ears of corn pop up, and they eat the healthy ones.
He wakes up and again knows it’s a dream.
But this time he’s not so relieved.
These dreams really tax Pharaoh’s spirit.
These dreams tax Pharaoh’s spirit.
It says he was troubled.
He could remember them, vividly.
These dreams were bizarre.
They were about cows eating cows, and corn eating corn.
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