False Accusations
July 19-20
Dreams amaze me. Usually, I can track them back to something I heard or watched the day/night before the dream. That is one of the reasons I am careful about what I watch or read. A couple nights ago I had a dream in which I had been framed for theft. In the dream I was shopping in a jewelry store for a necklace with the word joy on it. Leaving the store, the owner asked me if I would take home a box of diamonds to evaluate. Strange (as dreams can be), but I agreed. Leaving the store the alarm sounded and I was arrested for stealing diamonds. In the dream, I came to realized who was behind the staging of the false accusation and I decided instead of fighting, I'd just go to jail.
When I awakened I was thankful to still be at Shiloh!
The day after the dream, I was talking to a young woman who shared how she had been falsely accused of something on Facebook. People can be so hurtful and social media adds to the rapidity of the outpouring of those lacerations.
The story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife came to mind. Joseph had no attorney to fight for him. Off to prison he went, but God was there with him. As the day of evil approaches (or is here) we will see more and more of these false accusations. Hmm, there are probably quite a few going down right now related to the missile which was fired this week.
If you've never hung out in Genesis 39 check to Joseph's drama today, but reading this story.
Dreams amaze me. Usually, I can track them back to something I heard or watched the day/night before the dream. That is one of the reasons I am careful about what I watch or read. A couple nights ago I had a dream in which I had been framed for theft. In the dream I was shopping in a jewelry store for a necklace with the word joy on it. Leaving the store, the owner asked me if I would take home a box of diamonds to evaluate. Strange (as dreams can be), but I agreed. Leaving the store the alarm sounded and I was arrested for stealing diamonds. In the dream, I came to realized who was behind the staging of the false accusation and I decided instead of fighting, I'd just go to jail.
When I awakened I was thankful to still be at Shiloh!
The day after the dream, I was talking to a young woman who shared how she had been falsely accused of something on Facebook. People can be so hurtful and social media adds to the rapidity of the outpouring of those lacerations.
The story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife came to mind. Joseph had no attorney to fight for him. Off to prison he went, but God was there with him. As the day of evil approaches (or is here) we will see more and more of these false accusations. Hmm, there are probably quite a few going down right now related to the missile which was fired this week.
If you've never hung out in Genesis 39 check to Joseph's drama today, but reading this story.
"Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 7 and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”
8 But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.
11 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. 12 She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.
13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, 14 she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. 15 When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
16 She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. 17 Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. 18 But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.
But while Joseph was there in the prison, 21 the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. 22 So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. 23 The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did."
