Genesis 46-48

The opening of Genesis 46 reminds us something deeply instructive about God, He sees the end. He reassures Israel/Jacob that traveling to Egypt will result in his descendants becoming a great nation...yet as we know, they are in store for centuries of slavery. God sees the end, we too often are preoccupied with the journey.

We know too that part of Israel's reluctance was his commitment to the covenant. He believed that God was going to give him and his descendants the land of Canaan. No set of circumstances would chase him away from God's promise, not even famine. In Genesis 26 we see that Isaac was considering fleeing to Egypt because of another famine. Yet God told him to stay, Isaac sows his seed, in spite of the famine, and God supernaturally enables him to yield a hundred fold crop! Our prosperity, our destiny, is not dependent on our circumstances; I like the phrase circumstance transcendent!

What's God's word for you right now? His will is our security!

Pastor Fred