Bones
“And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of
the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the
LORD, that he had done for Israel. And the bones of Joseph, which the children
of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of
ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an
hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of
Joseph.”
(Joshua 24:31-32)
Today’s Morsel: One of the
last things that Joseph told the children of Israel prior to his death in Egypt
was, “I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you
out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died, being
an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin
in Egypt.”
(Genesis 50:24-26) He said that
when God comes for you, you make sure that you carry my bones with you.
Joseph seems to know that God would deliver them. And we see
that God did deliver them and they carried Joseph’s bones up with them and
buried him in Shechem, the place that years later Jesus would have a discussion
with the woman at the well about living water. “Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to
the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was
there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the
well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to
draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were
gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him,
How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of
Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and
said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to
thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have
given thee living water.”
(John 4:5-10) Even
Samson found water when he was athirst in the jaw bone of an ass. “And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the
jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. And it came to pass, when he had
made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and
called that place Ramathlehi. And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD,
and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant:
and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water
thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived:
wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto
this day. And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.” (Judges 15:16-20) Don’t burn and discard them bones, the
inheritance and life of the next generation may be in them.
Sing: Them bones them bones them dry
bones; Them bones them bones them dry bones; Them bones them bones them dry
bones; oh hear the word of the Lord.
Thought For Today: The inheritance and
life of the next generation may be in your bones.
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