someone else taking credit…

there is another way to picture how you and i can live the dream even when we don’t see it.  when i say live the dream, another picture in joseph's life is…

-you succeed in potiphar’s house.  succeed in the house of potiphar, his slave owner.  here’s joseph, this great leader.  GOD’s given him some great gifts and abilities and he’s given him a great dream and he’s working in the house of potiphar making his master very successful. 

if you have a GOD given dream, on your way towards that dream, you’ll meet some people who’ll hitch their wagon to your dream.  they’re even going to take the credit for some of the things that happened in your life because of your GOD given dream.  you can count on that.  potiphar did.  he got a lot of blessings from a man named joseph using him as a slave.  and there are going to be few people who try to use your dream.  what do you do about that?  do you just stop dreaming?  no.  you do what joseph did.  you keep serving HIM.  you don’t worry about them. 

you do what paul did.  he had a GOD given dream to share the gospel with everyone.  in philippians he tells us there are people who are jealous of that and tried to make fun of him and his preaching.  he said, “i don’t care about that. only that in every way whether in pretence or in truth CHRIST is proclaim.”  he forgot about those people who were trying to take credit for his dreams.  you and i need to, too.  forget about it.  GOD can take care about that.

when someone else tries to take credit for the dream, there’s a test.  and the test is this: who’s dream is it?  if it’s your dream – if you and i have started to take possession of it – there’s going to be a lot of anger.  but when i recognize it’s GOD’s dream i realize GOD can take care of them.  HE can take care of them real well!  HE knows exactly what to do to those trying to take credit for HIS dream.  that’s the test.

just a thought from the front porch…