29Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite. 30The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. 31There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah. 32The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
33When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.
Jacob was in the land of Egypt where great pyramids were, he could have been buried there like a pharaoh but instead he wanted to be buried in an obscure cave in the promised land of Canaan.
“Jacob did not yield up the ghost until he had delivered the last sentence of admonition and benediction to his twelve sons. He was immortal till his work was done. So long as God had another sentence to speak by him, death could not paralyze his tongue” (Spurgeon).
We will all breath our last an be gathered to our people unless the Lord comes first. When my father died a friend said, “you are now mortal”. Essentially he was saying the previous generation is gone, I’m next.
Yes we are mortal, yes we will die, but look at the promise we have from God!
Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
Mortal, does His Spirit live in you?
Blessings, David
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