Genesis 40 (Keep Doing The Right Thing)

Don't you just hate it when things don't work out.
I'm not talking too major here, just minor stuff.
But when you have a little plan to make things easier and it just doesn't quite work out, golly it can be annoying.
You know, with that eye-rolling, forehead slapping didn't work out feeling.
Take for example this evening.
Cooking a super nutritious meal of Cheese Kranskys for myself and the young sir.
Thinking of the potential cheesy oily residue that can be left behind,
along the resultant dish cleaning duties that follow, I lashed out and lined the tray with foil.
Job done.
Food in oven.
Food cooked.
Throw out foil.
Easy.
Or so you would think!!!!
On disposing of the aforementioned foil, it would appear it tore in its installation.
Resulting in the also aforementioned cheesy, oily residue getting stuck to the tray anyway.
As I scrubbed later on, I was left thinking that I don't think I got good value out of that strip of foil!
Sure it reduced some of the mess.
But I still had to scrub the tray.
I think I wasted the 20 or 30 cents or whatever that strip cost.

Are you meant to wash the trays anyway?
Really?
Even if there was no contact between food and tray?
Really?
Well there you go.
Apparently you still have to "clean" it.
Contact with food or not.

Genesis 40
Apart from Joseph, the person I feel for most in this story is the baker.
He gets thrown in jail and it's probably the worst day of his life.
But then this young Hebrew guy looks after him and things get a bit better.
Then he has this dream that bugs him because he doesn't get it.
Then he hears this amazing interpretation of the cup bearer's dream.
He's getting out!

Oo oo I had a dream too.
What does mine mean?
3 days, yeah like the cup bearer.
I think I'm getting out.
Pardon.
Say that again.
From a........
With a.......
By the.......
Bother.
Oh and then the birds will..........
To my......
Brilliant.
Yeah.
Thanks.

And it happened.

Joseph still maintains this incredible series of being blessed in adversity.
God totally had His hand on him.
And despite the surroundings and the circumstances, Joseph knew it.
In verse 15 you see a glimpse of frustration maybe.
"For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."
He is aware of what happened.
He is still intent on helping those around him.
Not just the baker and the cup bearer, but the captain of the guard as well.
Hang on.
Wasn't Potiphar the captain of the guard?
If this is the same bloke and he's showing favour on Joseph, does Potiphar realise he made a mistake.
I've never noticed this before and I don't know if it means anything or if I am reading something into it that isn't there and now I need to know like really really know because I can't stop thinking about it now and I'm tired and sore and this wasn't meant to be a long post tonight.

I'll work it out sometime.
Enjoy all.