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Discipleship Focus: Protection
- Protection: God shelters us. He knows our threats and knows how to bring us through them. We learn to trust God to protect us.
As I looked at this chapter through the various lenses of
discipleship, I saw the topic of protection come through in the blessing that
Jacob pronounces over Joseph’s children.
This is a beautiful blessing. It
is a blessing that first and foremost turns us to God’s activity.
In the Hexagon, we understand that one of the things for which we
can pray is protection. God protects
us. God watches out for us. We learn to trust our life in His hands. Let’s face it, is there anyone else whose
hands life is better placed?
But the thing that I really love about Jacob’s blessing upon his
grandchildren is the emphasis of God’s protection over not just himself but his
fathers. God walked with Abraham and
protected him. God walked with Isaac and
protected him. God has walked with Jacob
and protected him. Why shouldn’t Ephraim
and Manasseh learn to feel this same protection that was upon their forefathers
before them?
We can also know this same protection. God has not changed. The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ephraim,
and Manasseh is the God of Peter, Paul, James, and John and He is the same God
over you and me. God hand is over us
all. Into Him we commit our life and
spirit. There is no better place.
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