Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Genesis 49:20-21 KJV
America has produced many wonderful things that have blessed the entire world. The blessings bequeathed to Asher and Naphtali are productivity.
As The celebration of Thanksgiving approaches we ought especially to appreciate the wonderful foods produced by our own tribe. Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving delight? Most of us have several. Aren’t you glad that God provides such wonderful means of obtaining the nutrition our bodies need? I am also thrilled that He put me in a family with so many marvelous cooks.
I also love those with the blessing of Naphtali who lavish us with delicious and nourishing words. I have never been able to write beautifully. But I thank God that I live in a world with men whose words sing like Wordsworth’s and nourish like those of C.S. Lewis. I also thank God for so many kinds of art and creativity. How many clever and beautiful creations are produced by people created in the image of the God who designed Dragonflies and painted Tiger Swallowtails.
I used the King James version of these verses because it is one of the few versions that translate verse 21 literally. This gives us a wonderful beginning of the meaning of this verse. However, Hebrew is a metaphoric language. And the metaphor of the lovely words spoken by a doe are her beautiful fawns. And the most beautiful and effective words we speak are those whose lives we influence. Paul wrote to his spiritual children in his second letter to the church in Corinth.
“And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
2 Corinthians 3:3
I thank God for the legacy God has allowed me to leave in my children, physical and spiritual. They are the greatest potential for the future as we anticipate the return of Christ.
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