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Genesis chapter 48 verse 15, and he blessed Joseph and said,

The God before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac walks,

The God who has been my shepherd, all my life long to this day.

Oh, I love this verse. This is Jacob blessing Joseph.

And as he does, listen to the way he speaks about God.

I'll read it again. He says, The God before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac walked.

So he's looking back how God has been faithful to his grandfather Abraham,

to his father Isaac in a way that is carried on to God being faithful to him.

The God before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac walked.

And he says, The God who has been my shepherd, all my life long to this day.

What a picture of God's loving leadership in Jacob's life that he would look back.

So this is the end of Jacob's life. He would look back.

And he would say God has shepherded my life every day.

And you think about all that you read about and the book of Genesis that Jacob has done.

I mean, ways he has sinned and ways God has met him.

And how he's wrestled with God and just all the circumstances Jacob has walked through.

And his conclusion as he looks back at it all is God has been my shepherd all my life long

to this day. And I read this and I just immediately in my own life, I just start looking back at

good days, at hard days, even at times I have sinned in horrible ways.

And God has proven faithful to shepherd my soul, ultimately to save my soul,

and to lead me and to guide me to work in it all, even in the hardest days to work in it all as my good shepherd.

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