Chapter 48 is about a declaration of faith as Jacob adopts Joseph’s two sons and affirms that their descendants would one day claim the Promised Land. He admits the power, the presence, and the promise of God to Jacob. God had a lot of work to do in Jacob’s life, but at the end he had been walking by faith, honed on the anvil of faith through the hammer of hardship. But he had learned to walk with God, to trust God. He was finishing his race well. That’s the encouragement for us. Keep going to the end and then pass on that faith to others. Let Paul’s encourage to Timothy be for you as well. Fight the good fight of faith, finish the race, keep the faith. Jacob is finishing strong.
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