Genesis 50: 7-13: “And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.”
Even though Jacob sons were born in strife and lived in strife, they agreed with each other when it came time to bury their father. Some of them hated him, as we can see by the fact that his eldest son slept with his concubine, but they all realised that there was something beyond this life to look forward to. While the Egyptians were weeping the children of Israel were ensuring their place in eternity. We too face the same issue; are we going to weep about the things we have lost in our presents lives or are we going to rejoice in the secure future that God has stored up for us, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ?
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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