Genesis 41:20 The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.
Pharaoh seems worried to me, anxious. He doesn’t know what this dream means, and he’s concerned and wants, no needs, answers. He turned first to the magicians, to no avail. Now he’s coming to Joseph, hoping to find answers to give him a direction for action.
Genesis 41:21 But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
That’s a tough position to be in–you want answers but can find no one with the knowledge to give them to you. The tendency is to become more anxious, more frantic the longer it takes to get any kind of answers. In times like these, I try to hold on to Isaiah 43:19, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness….”
Genesis 41:22-23 “In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.
Precious Savior, When we stress and fret over things we don’t understand, help us to remember that You are sovereign and in control, You are making a way in our wilderness, even if we cannot yet perceive it. Help us to hold on to You. Always. Amen.
Genesis 41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.”
Have a blessed day.