Joseph is a boy - a teenager really. Can't you just imagine his youthful cockiness as he tells his dreams to his brothers?
And the fact that he is his father's favorite just adds fuel to the fire.
At a writers' conference several years ago, I sat at the supper table with a young woman who'd had a great day. She concluded her recitation of God's blessings to her with "I'm His favorite." As we all took turns sharing our triumph for the day, she'd interject to each "how wonderful! You're God's favorite." It became a running by-word for the remainder of the conference. And it was a reminder to us that God cared about each of us in every detail.
In fact, we're each God's favorite. He loves us each as if we were His only child. But this does not give us reason to be cocky and self-assured.
Rather it should make us more sensitive to the feelings of others, more ready to encourage and support their efforts to know God better.
We can best reflect His love by speaking gently and humbly, by loving unconditionally, and by admonishing softly with God's truth.
Father, God,
Wrap us in the security of Your love. Help us reflect it to all we meet who are starving for knowledge of You.
In Jesus most precious name,
Amen.
Amen.
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