JACOB – A WORSHIPPER
S. D. K. Roberts
I am sure, beloved brethren, that each of us here would wish our last day to be our brightest. Jacob could look back over his history and see many failures—as I can in looking back over mine. However, it would seem that Jacob’s last day was his brightest. He appears here as a worshipper not in a formal way but because of his knowledge of God (see Genesis 48: 15, 16). He worshipped on the top of his staff—suggesting his personal experience of God.
Do we ever ask, ‘Why am I alive?’ Our time on earth is very short; there is very little time left for any of us. What result for God, in our knowledge of Him, has resulted from each day of our sojourning? It is not a matter of mere mental knowledge, even of the Scriptures, however important that is, but a deepening personal knowledge of God Himself.
The Lord Jesus said, ‘The Father seeks such as His worshippers’, John 4: 23. Jacob ended his days as a worshipper and our dear brother, now with the Lord, had his own knowledge of God through experience and was a worshipper. God is to be surrounded by such and this will characterize eternity.