“¹⁰Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. Then Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.”

– Genesis 48:10 (NKJV)

“Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age , so that he could not see. Then Joseph brought them near him (what a tender example of the working out for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose, for it is Israel’s very infirmity that renders this moment so much more intimate as the need for close proximity is expediated thereby), and he kissed them and embraced them.” (. . . And how much greater the sharpening of- and reliance upon-, the other senses – most notably here touch – because of this weakness, therein also rendering the call to “take pleasure in infirmities” [2 Cor 12:10 NKJV] that much more revelatory. Let this beautiful reminder of Our Heavenly Father’s tender, demonstrative Love for His Children also not here be lost on us Beloved Reader. SELAH.) *

* From a larger, prophetic, big-picture point of view there is also a peculiar allusion made within this verse to the fact that even though Israel’s [even The Nation entire in its infancy here’s] view is dim at present, as if “through a glass darkly” [1 Cor 13:12], that which is in the process of being ushered in by God – precisely by such momentous, profound moments found in the blessing of the next generation such as these – is so grand and so far-reaching that they are impossible to behold and comprehend with the natural eye. How much sweeter then that Israel The Man will soon be taken up to be with his GOD In Glory and will perceive and know all with spiritual eyes we cannot even begin to know the Glory and extended vision of [1 John 3:2].)