Each of us tries to predict the future every time we change lanes in traffic hoping to pick the right lane to make progress toward our destination. Investors pay “financial experts” for their newsletter in hope to select the correct investments for the greatest return on investment while protecting the principle (or return of investment). There is a better way.
Genesis 41:1 Then it came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh had a dream; and behold, he stood by the river.
2 Suddenly there came up out of the river seven cows, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow.
3 Then behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ugly and gaunt, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.
4 And the ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 He slept and dreamed a second time; and suddenly seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, plump and good.
6 Then behold, seven thin heads, blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them.
7 And the seven thin heads devoured the seven plump and full heads. So Pharaoh awoke, and indeed, it was a dream.
8 Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.
FATHER gave Pharaoh the dream concerning the next fourteen years before him. The dream was so troubling Pharaoh knew that it had meaning relevant to his situation thus he looked toward his experts of the past for counsel. Their counsel yielded nothing in this case for the world had no past history to relate to this particular dream. This was uncharted territory. FATHER orchestrated the situation where Pharaoh’s butler would have a history with Joseph who had walked in Divine Inspiration and interpreted his own dream which was fulfilled:
9 Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying: “I remember my faults this day.
10 When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker,
11 we each had a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream.
12 Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us; to each man he interpreted according to his own dream.
We are once again being presented with world events which have placed us in uncharted territory. The financial system is leveraged with debt beyond what any “expert” could have predicted. Mathematically speaking, the debt cannot be repaid under the current system so something must “give”. What worked in the past is not working now and people are blind to the brevity of the situation just as they were in the time of Pharaoh’s dream. Only those who are led by THE HOLY SPIRIT and walk according to Divine Inspiration will have the answers required in the coming turbulent times. Now is the time to press in and focus on being in FATHER’S Presence. Without delay we should redirect our priorities and be cleansed and purified by HIS Word.
Men’s hearts will fail them as their past logic and assumptions no longer work. The only answers will be found in those who walk in Divine Inspiration and no longer look to trends and signs which worked in recent history. Only FATHER knows the future for HE is not restricted to time. Why seek counsel from any other source?