Genesis 41:37-39 (NIV1984)
The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials. So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?”
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.
When we demonstrate the wisdom of God before the world our desire should be that the world gives God the glory. When Joseph reveals Pharaoh's dream he made sure at the beginning that God was revealing it and Joseph was just the mouth piece. We can reveal wise things but disguise it as our own, grabbing the glory for ourselves. This might we the most wicked of things we do ... stealing the credit for things away from God when it is His glory that is due. In my speaking business in the educational industry this is one of the hardest areas I face. If I say I am about to share things with someone form Scripture they turn it off and would claim church-state issues. Yet, there is nothing I share that is not given to me from God. Joseph had the wisdom and ability to be used by God and get God the glory. He, unlike me, was not afraid to tell others where God gave him insight. Oh, to be like Joseph when we are out in the street and asked wisdom. To say, "I don't know, " but God does and this is what He told me. God knows and when He uses us we should give Him the glory.
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