“Jacob
charged them, ‘I am to be gathered to my people’.” Genesis 49:29
Jacob did not say to his sons that
he was about to be gathered to the dust from which God had made man. He had no
anticipation of his death being the end of his existence. He planned to be with
his people: Abraham, Isaac, his mother Rebekah, and his wife Leah. He planned
for a reunion not an extinction. That is the hope of all who have placed their
faith in God’s promise of eternal life through the Savior Jesus Christ.
But wait! Jesus hadn’t been born
yet. No, but He already was. He would come one day from the offspring of Judah,
but He already was, for He had always been. Jesus was the promised seed of
woman from Genesis 1. He was the lamb in the thicket when God stopped Abraham
from slaying Isaac. He was and is and is to come. Jacob believed that, and by
believing that, God had declared him righteous. That is still the way we are
saved today – faith in the promised Messiah Jesus Christ.
Dear Father, Thank You for
consistently having only one way of salvation. Amen.
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