MInTheGap

Anyone following Veggie Tales knows the story “The Ballad of Little
Joe” if only for the fact that it has the infamous “Boyz in the Sink”
singing about the fact that Mr. Lunt doesn’t have a belly button.  The
nice part of these stories is that they take a rather complex story,
boil it down to a single lesson, and then add some fun into it. 
However, nothing substitutes for the real thing.

Last night, in our reading through the Bible, we were in the passage
dealing with Joseph revealing himself to his brothers and Jacob coming
to Egypt.  Don’t you find it interesting how God and Moses keep
changing Jacob’s name back and forth, from Jacob to Israel?

What struck me as something new this time around?  The comment Jacob
makes to Pharaoh about his age.  If you’ll notice, Jacob says something
to the effect that the years of his pilgramage are shorter than the
years of his father’s pilgramage.  Jacob was around 130 at the time he
made this statement, and didn’t die for another few years.  The point
is that he knew that people were not lasting as long.

Also,
it was interesting to see the back and forth about Manasseh and Ephriam
during the blessing.  That Jacob knew what he was doing, and that this
was the second time that God was going to bless the younger over the
elder probably didn’t escape Jacob.

Did you notice that
Joseph’s wife was a priestess?  How did a person that followed God like
Joseph did fit together with a wife that was a priestess for On?  Is
that why Joseph (a person whose whole life growing up was full of
dreams and disappointment) had a problem with Jacob blessing his
younger son– because his faith may have been erroded away a little?

Just some things to think about.

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