In my
dash through the rest of Genesis last night, I came across another, “Here I am.”
It is Jacob answering God in Gen. 46:2.
I found
it of interest that Jacob and Laban parted on a sort of truce. And then there
is Esau – what a change came over him. Don't you just love the reconciliation
of he and Jacob: “Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck
and kissed him and they wept” (Gen. 33:4).
Jacob's
sons play a large part in his life. What a drama it was to produce them! We are
given Jacob's character valuation in chapter 49, and in Science and Health
Mrs. Eddy gives spiritual definitions of many of their names. “Dan” is the one
I find most instructive. In Genesis he is characterised thus: “Dan shall be a
serpent by the way, a viper by the path that bites the horse's heels so that
its rider shall fall backward” (49:17). And in Science and Health: “ Dan
(Jacob's son). Animal magnetism; so-called mortal mind controlling mortal mind;
error, working out the designs of error; one belief preying upon another.”
How
instructive is the image of the apportioning of blame – it all goes back to the
serpent, but neither the horse nor the man is at fault.
On my
scanning way, it was so good to read Gen. 31:49: “May the Lord watch between me
and thee, when we are absent one from another.” (NKJV has “you and me” but I
prefer the KJV as written here.)
So long
for now, Genesis.
Joyce Voysey
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