The Dream
At the age of 17, the young son of Jacob, Joseph, had a dream. It was a dream that the sun, moon and stars (his father, mother and eleven other brothers) would bow...
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Days of Future Prophesied
We have come to the conclusion of the Jacob story, and indeed, of the Genesis story. This is the first time we see a patriarch gathering all his children and blessing them together (unlike...
Bury my Bones in Machpelah
Have you ever been promised something that you had not seen? You yearned for it with aching, even with something like homesickness. Maybe migrants know that feeling better. They live, study or work for...
Fathers and Sojourners
‘Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen’ (Hebrews 11:1) Now that Joseph has wisely prepared his brothers and his father’s household to meet Pharaoh (Genesis 46:31-34), he...
Whose Will is it Anyway?
Do you really want to know God’s will? And to do it? For Jacob, it could be a foregone conclusion to move the family from a land of famine to a land of life...
Father
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. So wrote A W Tozer in his influential book, The Knowledge of the Holy. And as we...
God Sent Me
I wonder how Joseph felt when his brothers fell prostrate before him, and his childhood dream flashed across his mind. All that affliction and brokenness: being sold into Egypt, in and out of slavery,...
Claiming the Peace
We have come to the highlight of the Jacob and Joseph drama series! Interestingly, the hero here, it seems, is Judah. To him is given the longest speech in all of Genesis, and I...
God be Gracious to You! (Genesis 43:29)
Previously, we have seen how Jacob and his family are in need of a salvation that goes beyond food. We may also think of the main characters in this drama as the walking wounded....
What is this that God has done to us?
It could have been so much easier… Appear before the Egyptian lord, do the perfunctory bow, pay for the grain, and then hurry back to Canaan to feed the family. A simple business trip....
