Genesis 41:9
‘Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, ‘Today I am reminded of my shortcomings.’
‘Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, ‘Today I am reminded of my shortcomings.’
Joseph is in prison. Two years earlier he helped someone, also in prison, by interpreting a dream which gave the cupbearer of our text hope for his future. Upon his release he forgets all about Joseph until the Pharaoh has a dream of his own that no one could interpret. When the cupbearer hears about this, he remembers his old cellmate, and his abilities, which will eventually lead to Joseph’s freedom.
Reflection
Does the state of the world around us remind us today of our own shortcomings to be hope and light?
QUOTE FOR TODAY
‘The fractured and broken world will one day be put back together again, and the church is a signpost now of what will then be.’
(Glenn Packiam, Worship and the World to Come, p. 2)