Don’t Let Anyone Steal Your Dreams…
I was listening to a speaker tell the story about Joseph from the first book of the Bible, Genesis. The speaker mentioned about how spoiled Joseph was, and mainly due to the fact that he was born from his father’s beloved wife who died, and so he favored Joseph over the other 12 older brothers. Something no parent should ever do, but none the less this was the situation. But as the speaker continued to speak, he talked about how Joseph grew to become a very important young man through a series of unfortunate events, but it all started with a dream.
See if you know the story of Joseph, you would know that Joseph never did any real crime except accept the treatment his father gave him. And so his brothers hated him. They hated him so much that they plotted to kill him, but decided to sell their brother to a traveling caravan instead. Joseph had endured so much from being a slave, a prisoner, being away from his family, his father especially, but one thing he always held onto was his dreams.
Even before he was sold into slavery, Joseph dreamed such high standard of dreams. Which brings me to my point of what the speaker of this story was sharing. When we dream, the dream has to be bigger than who we are today. Because the real purpose behind the dream is to get us to grow. If your dream does not require change on your part, then your dream is not big enough.
When you have a dream you must protect it and don’t let anyone steal it, because people will try, even if its not intentional. Lets look back at the story of Joseph for a moment again. Joseph dreamed once that he was the sun. You know the sun that powers this earth. And the moon bowed to him, and twelve stars all bowed to him. Joseph’s dreamed signified as if his father was the moon, and his twelve brothers were the stars and they would all bow down to him. As much as Joseph’s father loved him, even he cut down on Joseph’s dream pretty much telling him to forget about that happening. And you know what, that’s exactly what ended up happening, later years in life.
You ever have a family member or loved one tell you “Well, we just don’t want you to get your hopes up.” My question to them would be, Why not? I want to get my hopes up, because hope leads to faith and until you have faith in exactly what it is you are doing, or that dream, that hope keeps you going.
I hear lots of people say “Well I’m just not a leader.” Well neither was Joseph. He was a spoiled brat, who ended up becoming the second in command, and saved his people through a 7year famine. There is no such thing as a born leader, maybe a born manipulator. Manipulators get people to do things for their own benefit, but leaders get people to do things for their own benefit.
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