Genesis 49:24

“His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.”
— Genesis 49:24

That strength which God gives to his Josephs is real strength; it is
not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but which
ends in smoke; it is true-divine strength. Why does Joseph stand
against temptation? Because God gives him aid. There is nought that we
can do without the power of God. All true strength comes from “the
mighty God of Jacob.” Notice in what a blessedly familiar way God gives
this strength to Joseph-“The arms of his hands were made strong by the
hands of the mighty God of Jacob.” Thus God is represented as putting
his hands on Joseph’s hands, placing his arms on Joseph’s arms. Like as
a father teaches his children, so the Lord teaches them that fear him.
He puts his arms upon them. Marvellous condescension! God Almighty,
Eternal, Omnipotent, stoops from his throne and lays his hand upon the
child’s hand, stretching his arm upon the arm of Joseph, that he may be
made strong! This strength was also covenant strength, for it is
ascribed to “the mighty God of Jacob.” Now, wherever you read of the
God of Jacob in the Bible, you should remember the covenant with Jacob.
Christians love to think of God’s covenant. All the power, all the
grace, all the blessings, all the mercies, all the comforts, all the
things we have, flow to us from the well-head, through the covenant. If
there were no covenant, then we should fail indeed; for all grace
proceeds from it, as light and heat from the sun. No angels ascend or
descend, save upon that ladder which Jacob saw, at the top of which
stood a covenant God. Christian, it may be that the archers have sorely
grieved you, and shot at you, and wounded you, but still your bow
abides in strength; be sure, then, to ascribe all the glory to Jacob’s
God.

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