Genesis2:2. Hence Jehovah God had a deep sleep fall upon the man and
while he was sleeping, he took one of the ribs and then closed up the flesh
over its place.
The mystery behind the day and the dream is of such that
Adam realizes that he cannot go on with his life because his life needs
something that it cannot do away with. What he needs is a companion, a helper,
a comforter who exactly suits his own kind. At exactly midnight which sugestically
represents the wee hours of the morning-the first man begins to look for what
he cannot do away with. He looks for it until, he comes to a place where he
cannot look for his object of desire anymore, and he rests from being tired,
and exhausted at exactly the time when it was the hottest part of the day which
sugestically is represented by midday and onwards.
He rests because he
has been looking and looking but for some hidden reason he cannot find what he
is looking for. And while he is resting, his original intention is not to sleep
because it’s not time to sleep but rather to perspire. Its time to perspire but
he cannot perspire because he has been perspiring since midnight and now its
midday and he is tired and resting but the place where he has found rest is the
same place which mysterious holds what h has been looking for and he doesn’t
realize it yet .He doesn’t intend to sleep but he none the less finds himself
sleeping because God in all his divine power has compelled him to sleep by
sending him into a perpetual slumber –a state of deep sleep without intent to
sleep.
Genesis 39:10-So it turned out that as she spoke to Joseph day after
day he never listened to her to lie alongside her to continue with her.11-But
it happened that on this day as other days he went into the house to do his
business, and there was none of the men of the house there in the house.12-Then
she grabbed hold of him by his garment saying: ’But he lefts his garment in her
hand and took to flight and went on outside.
It’s quite obvious right from the onset that it’s not Joseph’s
intention to sleep with potipher’s wife but on the other hand, its potipher’s
wife’s intention to sleep with Joseph. And Joseph being the kind of man that he
is, he thinks that he can put the situation under his control and prevent the
unacceptable from happening but the problem is of such that potipher’s wife’s
intention cannot be put under control because she cannot even control herself
from her intention to sleep with holy Joseph. So Joseph runs away from a
situation that is seemingly beyond his control, however the mystery is that the
reason why the situation is beyond both Joseph and potipher’s wife’s control is
based on the divine revelation that it was a God-ushered situation designed to
eventually take Joseph into custody/prison because it was in prison where he
was to find a pair of Dreams and to two Dreams who would then arouse and stir
his gift-of interpreting Dreams.
It’s very important to appreciate and in all his stay in
Egypt-Joseph had never come across anybody in need of his gift because Egypt
was a nation of dreamers. They was no need for one to dream because no one was
needy as result of the fact Egypt was the richest nation and hence the dream of
the universe. It should not be ironic that the dreams that aroused and stirred
Joseph’s gift were not even his own dreams because Joseph had been through
enough struggles from a dry well to being a slave in a house with a woman
plotting to rape him the very moment she laid eyes on him, and then finally in
a prison that he had no business in but he had to be there because it was the
place designed by God for him to come into direct contact with a pair of men
who had a problem designed to stir his Gift. An occasion which would eventually
open up boundless possibilities for him to b able to realize the dream of his
life, a dream he had conceived several years ago while still in his father’s home.
Have you ever found yourself in a place where you know you
have no business being in that particular place but none the less you are
compelled to be there because destiny is calling you for a meeting that shall
open up the doors that shall led in your dream. A dream you conceived in the
night but now it’s meeting you during day. Just like the way it was when you
first came across it in the night. Adam knew for sure basing his knowledge on divine
mystery that what I need shall not meet me where I’m resting but what he never
knew was that he would not meet what he was looking for during day before he
would first dream about it.
So in throwing Adam into a slumber –God Almighty’s intention
is to show Adam what plain eyes have not seen because when the first man was
looking for a suitable companion from the Midnight-midday-he was looking with
his plain eyes. I’m talking to a specific generation right now whose members are
in the quest for something that doesn’t share any kind of resemblance with what
the past generations had in their grip but the problem on your hands, is so big
and enormous because you are looking for whatever you are looking for with your
plain eyes and now you are tired and exhausted, and frustrated. But if you can
only hear the Zion sound of Victory , Glory and honor-as it whispers ”take some
rest…… take some rest….and I will show you what eyes have not seen nor ears
heard nor hands touched and that which has never entered into any man’s heart. The
day requires its on vision known as plain vision. Whatever you can behold
during day with plain vision can also be held by somebody else with the same
vision. Whilst the night requires not plain vision but night vision, and
according to the divine mystery night vision only becomes functional when plain
vision is turned off. When you go to sleep in order for you to be fundamentally
a sleep your plain eyes have to close, and once they close another form of eyes
open-up to behold the mysteries of God.
Those eyes are called night vision, while the first man was
in a divine perpetual slumber he beheld by way of his night vision God Almighty
pick the rib side of his being and using it to form a woman who would
eventually suit him as a companion, a helper, and a comforter and as much as a
good listener ad a sound counselor. God declares, that whatever you are looking
for, and you can’t find..if you can only rest in Him, He will first show you in
a dream and then give it to you in the day. And once I give it to you, your
environment, situation, and circumstance shall be shell-shocked but you won’t
even be surprised because you saw it all in a dream.
The first true evidence that the dream of your life is
walking with you and besides you in broad day light is in your enemies snaking
you based on the favor and blessings of God over your life. Once the woman –a depiction
of God’s favor and blessing towards Adam was established in the Garden of Eden
all the enemies of mankind began to snake him based on the woman. Before the
woman is introduced in the Garden of Eden, the devil had no sound reason to
snake man but once the concept of the woman is introduced then hell broke loose
against Adam. Prepare for hell to break loose on you when your dream comes to
pass by and by during day-time, when all men can behold plainly the great favor
and blessing of God over your life. Its midnight past and Jacob is wrestling
with a man whose identity is unknown to even Jacob himself. Have you ever
struggled with something whose identity is unknown to you and the best you can
say is that struggling so bad and so beneath, and I even do not know why am
struggling this bad, I keep on doing everything that I can possibly do to
improve my situation but my situation sems not to change.” All of that comes
down to the fact that you are wrestling with something whose identity doesn’t
make sense. It ludicrous because no one seems to understand why God the all powerful
would wrestle with a weak and frail being like the man he so created.
The man that Jacob is
wrestling with is at first unknown but while it fast approaches day, the man
demands of Jacob to be let go. Interestingly, Jacob is unwilling to let the man
go without knowing the identity of the man because he will have to tell a story
to his children but how will the story be interesting if the identity of the
man is unknown. Perhaps I will be able to see your face during day-Jacob seems to
convince him-self even when the man is unwilling to disclose his identity to
Jacob. However Jacob persists and in doing so the man asks of Jacob, “what is
your name?” Jacob is my name, alright-the stranger replies-from now onwards you
will be called Israel-because you have struggled with both man and God and you
have still come on top……..can you imagine that there is a chosen generation
whose struggle is not with men but is with God.
They are struggling with God and they have refused to let go
if their God-to the advice of their fellow contemporaries-because they keep on
convincing themselves God will bless me one day. It’s like an empty dream to
those looking at you casually but yes indeed God is preparing and is going to
bless you this day and it will all look like a dream. You know you have
struggled with God when you keep on living holy despite the loneliness, when you
keep on fasting even though when nothing seems to be changing. You keep on
praising and worshipping, serving even when you do not have food not only in
your stomach but in your kitchen. Its time to cheer –up because day light is
coming and the God with whom and for whom you struggled is going to bless you
even as you are now, and when he blesses you, the story of your struggle will
be turned into the story of your success. Once everybody begins to see for
themselves the plain Glory of God over your life
