23. Israel also came into Egypt. The aged
patriarch came, and with him that increasing company which bore his name. He
was hard to bring there. Perhaps nothing short of the hope of seeing Joseph
could have drawn him to take so long a journey from the tombs of his
forefathers; but the divine will was accomplished and the church of God was
removed into an enemy’s country, where for a while it was nourished. And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. Shem the blessed came to lodge awhile with
Ham the accursed. God so willed it for a time, and therefore it was safe and
right; still it was only a sojourn, not a settlement. The fairest Goshen in
Egypt was not the covenant blessing, neither did the Lord mean his people to
think it so; even so to us “earth is
our lodge” but only our lodge, for heaven is our home.
PREVIOUS
NEXT
No comments:
Post a Comment