"But when it is good for you, please remember me and be nice to me. Tell me about me before Pharaoh and save me from this prison. " (Gen 40: 14)
"The chief cupbearer did not remember Yue Se, but forgot him." (Gen. 40: 23)
How embarrassing it is for a young man who has been framed as honest and clean and refuses to do evil to be thrown into a prison where criminals live together! In this case, it is very reasonable to look for opportunities to get out of prison. Sure enough, the opportunity came. After Yue Se explained the dream of each of them to the chef, his heart would think that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and must not be taken lightly. So he quickly and sincerely asked the chief cupbearer to say, "When you get better, please remember me, be kind to me, mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison."
It can be said that the interpretation of Jiu Zheng's dream and Yue Se's dream for him will leave a deep impression on him. Even if he forgets his birthday and age, he won't forget the dreams that Yue Se and Yue Se dreamed for him. When he was released from prison and resumed his post, the first thing he did was to mention Yue Se to Pharaoh and try to free him from prison. Who would have thought the opposite was true? The Bible tells us: "The chief cupbearer did not remember Yue Se, but forgot him."
What surprised us the most was not why the wine administrator forgot Yue Se, but why God made the wine administrator forget Yue Se. We dare not be arbitrary about why the Chief Wine Officer forgot Yue Se. Or is it because Jiu Zheng's memory is particularly weak, and he is so busy after his reinstatement that he can't remember Yue Se? Or is it because Jiu is a selfish person who only wants to get help from others, but doesn't want to help others at all? He only knows the pain of going to jail, but he doesn't understand the pain of others, so he doesn't take Yue Se's request to heart. Or because the cupbearer is a jealous person, he thinks that a talented person like Yue Se will be appreciated and valued by Pharaoh if he is released from prison. Therefore, no one knew that his position as cupbearer was taken away by Yue Se, so he deliberately didn't remember Yue Se and didn't mention him to Pharaoh. But I don't think this is the third reason, because if the chief cupbearer is such a person, he will never mention Yue Se to Pharaoh again.
Strange! The cupbearer forgot Yue Se, so why didn't God remind him and remind him of Yue Se? Yue Se was imprisoned because he feared God and refused to commit crimes. At that time, God did not avenge him and allowed him to be wronged and imprisoned. This is enough to confuse us. Now that we finally have such a good chance, why didn't God mention waking up and helping him save Yue Se from prison? How can a loving God be so cruel? We really want to talk to him about Yue Se, so that we can feel at ease.
We don't need to talk to God about Yue Se. I don't think it's that God didn't mention the sober government that reminded him of Yue Se, but that God made the cupbearer forget Yue Se. God is not cruel to Yue Se, but kind to Yue Se. Yue Se did not suffer, but Yue Se benefited. The cupbearer doesn't remember Yue Se, but God remembers Yue Se. The cupbearer forgot Yue Se, but God never forgot Yue Se. It's not that God doesn't want to save Yue Se from prison, but that his time is not up yet. God's time has come. He can not only remind the cupbearer, but also instruct the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt with strange dreams. In an instant, a prisoner in a prison became the prime minister of North Korea.
You know, Yue Se was sold to Egypt as a slave by his brothers, and later framed by that slutty and shameless housewife and sent to prison. God's will is inside. None of this will happen to God unless he allows it. God wants to do great things with Yue Se. He must go through intensive training before he is qualified to take on major events, and then major events can be put on his shoulders. We should also know that what Yue Se did later was not only related to the whole Egyptian nation, but also to the whole Israeli nation. For if it were not for God's salvation, the seven-year famine would not only starve all the people in Egypt, but also all the people in Israel.
Since God has placed such a great mission on Yue Se's shoulders, naturally he needs to strictly train Yue Se and make Yue Se his favorite loyal servant. God knows that the lessons that people who do great things for him need to learn are humility, honesty, loyalty, diligence, patience, hardship, loyalty to small things and hard work. He knows that these lessons can never be learned in a good and smooth situation. He knew that if Yue Se had been living in his father's house, he would never have a chance to take these courses. Therefore, he sold Yue Se to Potiphar's home through his brother in Yue Se, where Yue Se learned many things that he had no chance to learn before. God saw that Yue Se had not learned enough in Potiphar's house, so he put him in the prison of the wicked.
In people's eyes, Yue Se's experience is becoming more and more painful step by step, but through this situation, God makes Yue Se more qualified to undertake great events day by day. God knows how much time Yue Se needs to train. He knows more clearly what lessons Yue Se has learned.
It's a pity that Yue Se didn't know these things that day. He spent a long time in prison. He tasted the pain of going to prison. He can't wait to get out of this terrible prison. Helpless, I can't get a chance to get out of prison, so I have to sigh. Unexpectedly, this strange thing happened suddenly-the person in charge of wine administration and the person in charge of dinner each had a dream. After Yue Se explained their dream, it suddenly occurred to him that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he begged Jiuzheng to save him from this prison.
As we can imagine, after the chief wine officer was released from prison, Yue Se waited eagerly for good news in prison every day. Who knows that day after day, month after month. From spring to summer, from summer to autumn, from autumn to winter, from winter to spring and summer, Yue Se's heart doesn't know how anxious it is. But what is the use of anxiety? Before God's date, can he change his goodwill because of Yue Se's anxiety? If he changes his mind and lets Yue Se get out of prison early, is it in Yue Se's interest? God will never do anything wrong. Yue Se didn't understand what God had done at that time, but when he got out of prison and became the prime minister of Pharaoh, he would remember what had happened before. Of course, he would thank God, because God didn't do what he wanted, but let him stay in prison for two more years.
What a valuable lesson Yue Se's release from prison taught us! We are too shallow in knowledge and too close in sight, and only care about the comfort and happiness in front of us, but we don't think of the greater benefits behind us. So we always choose the smooth and easy road. Because God loves us, he often doesn't treat us according to our wishes, but puts us in a painful and difficult position. On the one hand, he wants to refine our dross and clean up our filth. On the other hand, he wants us to learn many most precious and important lessons there.