THE SOURCE OF BLESSING
As we come to the celebration of Thanksgiving, we need to remind ourselves of the source of all blessings. James 1:17 tells us that every good gift and every perfect gift comes from above.
We see this vividly in Jacob’s blessing to Joseph in Genesis 49.
Genesis 49:22-26 gives us two pictures of our Lord’s blessings that I thought we did not see until much later in Scripture.
The blessing begins with Joseph’s fruitfulness.
“Joseph is a fruitful bough,
a fruitful bough by a spring;
his branches run over the wall.”
It then recounts Joseph’s steady response to bitter attack.
“The archers bitterly attacked him,
shot at him, and harassed him severely,
yet his bow remained unmoved;
his arms were made agile
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob”
Joseph’s strength comes from the Mighty One of Jacob. And look what else Jacob calls the Lord. He first says the Lord is his Shepherd. I would have said our Lord was not called our Shepherd until the 23rd Psalm. From the beginning of Scripture we see God who leads us gently in love and provision.
Next these verses call Him "The Stone of Israel. In 1 Corinthians 10:4 Paul refers to the water that God brought out of the rock in the wilderness.
“And all drank the same spiritual drink.
For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them,
and the Rock was Christ.”
In 1 Samuel 2:2 we are reminded,
“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.”
He is the foundation of all stability in our lives.
As we gather this week to give thanks to our Lord this week we can give thanks for our Heavenly Father’s loving direction, His abundante provision, and His faithful stability in our lives and upon the earth.
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