The Homiletic Review Genesis 47:8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you? Life always seems short in the retrospect; and that light of past experience is the only true light. He only who has paced the ground knows it. Life's true measure is not years, but epochs of progress towards the ideal which the Creator has set before us. As the tree's chronicles are its rings, so those of the soul are its definite expansions. I. Ask yourself, how far am I advanced in my KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH. Do I know God yet? Do I know Christ and Him crucified? Do I discern spiritual things, or am I yet but a babe "crying for the light"? II. How much have I developed in CHARACTER, grown in spiritual size, toward the statue of the perfect man in Christ Jesus? III. What RECORD have I made in my Lord's service? Veteran means old; but the soldier attains the title not by years — rather by the campaigns and battles in which he was found faithful. What noble fights have I made against evil? What service rendered the needy? What comfort brought the sick? What help to discouraged souls? (The Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?WEB: Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?" |
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