32 “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day..”
Genesis 48:15
Jacob is now an old man and is heading to his rest in death. He looks back and recognizes the hand of God on all his days and how God has amply supplied all his need. He has had bread and every provision, physical and spiritual and is now blessing his son Joseph. Whatever age we are we can look back and summarise our life with God and how He has so blessed us with every blessing in Christ. How doubly blessed when we can see the hand of God on our family situations too – fathers and mothers who loved the Lord and sought to teach us the right way.
This is a good state of mind to be in all our days, that we might follow the lovingkindness of the Lord in our daily walk with Him. We will be able to praise Him all day and have a spiritual outlook on all our dealings.
God feeds us daily with the temporal blessing we enjoy and also the deep spiritual joys of knowing Him. This kind of outlook fosters the spirit of gratitude which is a sustaining grace in our Christian life. To know that God is with us and is especially interested in our life generates deep love for Him and a staying away from sin and all its deep dyed blame.
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
1 Corinthians 10:13
