Tag: cupbearer

“But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.”…

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. (Genesis 40:14, 23)

It must have been discouraging to Joseph that the cupbearer forgot him.

How much hope did he have those first few days after the cupbearer was released, especially when Joseph undoubtedly heard that he was restored to his position, just as Joseph had said?

But days passed. Weeks passed. Nothing happened.

People are fallible. They will fail us.

The good news is, God doesn’t.

Four times it says in chapter 39 that he was with Joseph.

And he would continue to be with Joseph throughout his life, even though Joseph couldn’t always see it.

Thousands of years later, another man begged, “Remember me!”

And on the cross, Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43)

But unlike the cupbearer, Jesus remembered him and interceded for him before the Father.

He does the same for us. (Hebrews 7:22-25)

So whatever we’re going through, let us always hold on to the hope we have in him.