{"id":3512,"date":"2017-03-20T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2017-03-20T04:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T04:35:00","slug":"not-what-you-think-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/not-what-you-think-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Not what you think it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">pieces<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">&nbsp;of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. &#8211; Genesis 37:28<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This looks like a simple trade: the annoying dreamer being disposed of in exchange for a sum of money. Everybody wins, where &#8220;everybody&#8221; is Joseph&#8217;s older brothers.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what is actually happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>God is using their hatred and jealousy to position Joseph in a place of greatness.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s using their determination to kill Joseph&#8217;s dreams as a tool for helping Joseph realise his dreams.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s using the agreed upon price &#8211; 20 pieces of a pure, refined-in-the-furnace metal as a prophetic symbol of the 20 years of refinement that Joseph would undergo before he next saw them.<\/p>\n<p>And the same is true of the things happening in your life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what you think it is. It&#8217;s so much bigger and richer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty&nbsp;pieces&nbsp;of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. &#8211; Genesis 37:28 This looks like a simple trade: the annoying dreamer being disposed of in exchange for a sum of money. Everybody &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/not-what-you-think-it-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not what you think it is&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}