The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Genesis 46:1-4,
“So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, ‘Jacob! Jacob!’ ‘Here I am,’ he replied. ‘I am God, the God of your father,’ he said. ‘Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes.’”
There is something fascinating to me about the exchanges God has with people. The Creator of the cosmos stoops down to speak with man! In this account Jacob has left for Egypt and stops in Beersheba where he offers sacrifices to God. God visits Jacob that night to reassure him about moving his household to Egypt. There Jacob and his family will escape the ravages of the current famine. Additionally, God is setting the stage for his redemption of Israel from Egypt that will take place four hundred years later.
God clearly has an agenda. He is pursuing his purposes and accomplishing all he has decided will happen.
All of creation will give way to that which he sets in motion. In an ordered set of precision events God sets the stage to display his divine themes of redemption, freedom from bondage, and opportunity to participate in new life! God will use the nation of Israel to teach the world he is the one who releases captives. All of what God is bringing about through Israel is to provide for mankind a picture of the astounding acts that Jesus Christ will accomplish when he visits planet earth and dies on a cross for us.
Dead in our sins, condemned before God’s justice and righteousness as lawbreakers, our matchless Savior comes to rescue us! “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” Isaiah 9:2.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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