David Turner Blog

I have a dream. The famous words used by Martin Luther King in his century-defining speech. One biblical character makes a similar declaration but in the past tense, “I’ve had a dream”. Joseph, a young man, has two dreams in which (through various images) his brothers are depicted as bowing down to him. As a result, his already wound up jealous brothers, decide this is the last straw, and plan to destroy Joseph. First, by literally killing him, but eventually settling on the good old “sell your little brother into slavery” scenario. This story came to mind recently, and I recognised something in Joseph that stands in contrast to another biblical character - David. You see, Joseph has a God given dream, and uses his God-given gift (dream interpretation), but he jumps ahead of the gun, and shares something that wasn’t ready, he trusts in his timing, and not in God’s. David, on the face of it, shares many similarities with Joseph, he is also a younger brother, he too tends to ...