Genesis 47:13-26
The fulfilment of Pharaoh’s dream was inseparable from the person of Joseph. The great plenty followed by the famine has made him to be acknowledged as the sustainer of life, the saviour of the world.
Christ is the centre of prophecy. Soon He will have universal rule. All the families of the nations will bow before Him (Psalms 22:27). But believers do not wait for this time to belong to Him, and to worship Him. Jesus is carrying on a work in them. He begins by satisfying their souls’ needs. Then like Joseph with the Egyptians, He works in such a manner that, little by little, everything is yielded to God. The secret of full deliverance is to accord Him His rights over our days, our goods, our bodies and our hearts. The Lord is not content with such and such a sacrifice on our part. He claims us altogether by reason of the rights He has acquired over us. He has bought us at great price for God (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). We no longer belong to ourselves but we have become the happy servants of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. James 1:1), with all the consequences this entails; from now on we depend on Him entirely, not only for the provision of all our need, but also so that there will be fruit in our lives for His glory.