When Famine Devours Abundance
(Genesis 41:1–7)
Genesis 41 begins with a quiet but powerful phrase:
“After two whole years.”
People had forgotten Joseph,
but God’s timing had not stopped.
God does not begin by waking Joseph—
He begins by disturbing the king’s sleep.
In his dream, Pharaoh stands by the river,
the source of life and prosperity in Egypt.
There, God first shows him a picture of abundance:
seven healthy cows,
seven full and good ears of grain.
It is a vision of completeness and stability.
But the scene quickly shifts.
Ugly, thin cows appear.
Blighted ears, scorched by the east wind, rise up.
And then the unthinkable happens.
The thin devour the fat.
The weak consume the strong.
Famine does not replace abundance—
it swallows it whole.
God reveals that abundance, when unprepared,
cannot protect itself.
After the dreams repeat, Pharaoh wakes up.
He realizes this was no ordinary dream.
Yet he still does not understand its meaning.
The king is awake,
but the solution has not yet appeared.
God reveals the crisis first,
then calls the interpreter.
The stage is now set.
It is time for Joseph to be summoned.
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