What Is God Doing? #22

What in the world is God doing? Did he just start all this going and go off and leave it? Or is he sitting in a heavenly recliner watching all this like a great, sweeping soap opera? Or is it possible that God has a plan and that he is implementing that plan?

There is reason to believe that most of the time, in most of the world, God just lets things run. But there are individuals and circumstances that he seems to steer from time to time. He knows people’s hearts and needs merely to tweak a few things to get the results he is looking for. But once in a while, he finds it necessary to communicate directly.

And so it was that the Egyptian Pharaoh had two haunting dreams. I gather these were not some of those dreams that come about from going to bed on a full stomach. Somehow, Pharaoh knew that these dreams were different and important—but why? And what did they mean?