Genesis 41:1-13
The prayer of the thief was brought before us yesterday: "Lord, remember me" (Luke 23:42). In 40:14 it is Joseph who asks the butler who is just going to be delivered: "Think on me". How sad it is to read in v. 23 of this same chapter: "Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him".
And where we are concerned, redeemed by the Lord, in the gain of His great salvation, are we not often ungrateful, forgetting Him who has saved us? Although we owe everything to Jesus, we neglect to speak about Him to those who do not have the privilege of knowing Him. It is because He knew how forgetful our hearts are that the Lord, in giving the bread and the cup to His disciples asked them "This do in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19).
After Pharaoh’s dream, the butler remembers Joseph. It must have cost him a lot to say, "I do remember my faults this day" (v. 9). But he could not speak of Joseph without saying where and why he had met him. Likewise, when we give testimony of Jesus, our Saviour, let us not be afraid to acknowledge in what state of misery and sin we were when He brought us to know deliverance.