Joseph not only remembered the dreams God had given him but he remembered God in his circumstances. I have often wondered how someone so young without any family or priest or written word, without the law delineating the expectation of God or the promise of a prophet's word, could so accurately project the path of God. All of us are called to walk in His path. Jesus showed it to us, the Word expresses it and we have others who walk in His path to show us the way. Joseph had no one but his own awareness of God. That is enough.
Keeping God in your focus will reveal His ways to you. Allowing Him to teach you and guide you is enough. But when Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and took the gaining of knowledge into his own hand, we have been trying to tell God how we want it done and we seek the knowledge of this realm rather than turning to God. So God sends trouble and testing to help us seek Him. Even then, with the wrong focus, we seek some way out of the trouble on our own. I love the example of Joseph, for I realize from his example, God wants to lead me more than I want to be led.
Joseph lived in a crucial day. God was getting ready to move people and circumstances to achieve His purpose. God had told Abraham his descendants would be in Egypt and that He would bring them out. God was moving Joseph into the place He wanted him for His purpose to be fulfilled. We live in a similar day. Don't curse what is happening to you, interpret it in the Light of God's purpose. See God in all that happens to you and flow with Him, walking in His path.
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