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Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Devotional: February 27th

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Genesis 35:16-29

This is a new stage in Jacob’s life. While he is on his journey the birth of Benjamin and the death of Rachel happen simultaneously. The Christian path way is also strewn with joys and sorrows. As Jacob, he can "set up a pillar" (vv. 14, 20).

The two names given to the child each speak to us of the Lord Jesus. Ben-oni, the son of my sorrow, is the name of the One whom Israel will mourn "as one mourneth for his only son" (Zechariah 12:10). It is the name of the One who Himself was afflicted on the earth, a Man of sorrows, who submitted to suffering. But He is at the same time, the true Benjamin, the Son at the Father’s right hand, who was told by God, "Sit thou at my right hand" (Psalms 110:1, a verse quoted many times in the New Testament). The two names are inseparable and borne by the same person. They remind us that the sufferings and the glories of Christ cannot be dissociated (1 Peter 1:11).

Another name in our reading makes us think of Jesus: Bethlehem (v. 19), where the Saviour was to be born. Rachel’s sepulchre stands there, the place of tears mentioned at the beginning of the Gospel (Matthew 2:18) but also the place where the greatest cause of joy for all time would be announced (Luke 2:10).

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