They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to G-d? Please tell them to me.”
Genesis 40:8, ESV
Yes, I realize this is discussing a narrative dealing with the concept of dreams and that G-d can provide dreams and their interpretations.
That said, let’s consider the following:
What sorts of other things need interpretation that people like to mess up badly and routinely?
- Visions
- Situations
- Symbols
- Circumstances
- Historical Events
- Prophecy
- And while we are at it, Scripture
We are so given toward thinking that Scripture needs to be our standard…
I have no problem with that idea. I also have no problem with the concept that Holy Spirit leads us into all truth.
Not our natural way of thinking…
The problem is, we often do not have a relationship with Holy Spirit such that we feel we can verbally ask Him to help us interpret, and as a result, we do not have the interpration because we do not ask for the interpretation. We do not ask Him to show us what He wants to show us.
If we do not approach the word of G-d with an attitude of asking the G-d of the Word to speak, and to help us interpret, when interpretations belong to him, then where does that leave us.
We have a map and we do not have our Guide with us. He is over there and we have gone elsewhere gallavanting without him because we took our own natural brain and applied that as our interpretive framework, when He designed us. Furthermore, when He designed our spirits to lead, and we let our brains lead, and no wonder we have a soul that is an old man, a spirit that is a baby, and the willpower of a teenager when it comes to resisting pornography, or an addict when it comes to drugs.
G-d was here first, and G-d designed our spirits to be in the lead, but if we have lived constantly with the soul or the body up front, we are going to live as a cripple trying to fight with one hand tied behind us, as per Carol Danvers.
We fought that way because the clowns told us that is how to fight, not realizing that they are taking us to the cleaners (John 10:10).
We were made to walk with and hear him, and we were made to interpret all things by the enablement of the G-d of Interpretations.
Perhaps we would succeed better at Scripture and at life, if we allowed the Great Interpreter to show us how to read these things.
For example, this is just one way we can interpret Pesach (A/K/A/Passover) when we are listening to Him:
A Blessing For Your Spirit
Beloved, I would like to invite your spirit to step to the front and to hear what the L-rd is saying to you in this passage. Interpretations belong to G-d. All interpretations and understandings are in His hand, and given to you because He loves you as His son.
So, I bless you, spirit, to hear from the G-d of Interpretations, and to be filled with His understanding as your spirit comes alive with all that the L-rd has for you. I bless you to connect with Him as you read, and I bless you as you receive freshly-baked manna from His storehouses in heaven.
I bless you to grow into newness on a regular basis, and to fight and throw into the fire all the “maggoty, stinking bread” that you have subsisted on. The old bread that is rotten and stinks with worms that was handed to you by some person and not by Father Himself.
I bless you will fullness of freedom to know that full capacity to read and to understand, in the name of Yeshua.
Amen, so be it.