Hebrews 11:22 is a passage about Joseph’s remarkable faith in God. Can you conceive of a faith so forward-thinking that it would cause you to use the precious minutes of your deathbed to instruct your sons to re-bury you in the land of God’s promise? Joseph’s view of God’s redemptive plan was more encompassing because he stood–by God’s grace–on a higher peak of faith.
__________
not in
Egypt,
boys, nor
Goshen,
land of
father’s
latter
sojourn—
but plant
me deep
in ground
the Lord
himself
has named
for one
who brawled
with him
till dawn—
case me
not in
coffin
wood, so
even
tongueless
I will
taste the
blood of
Canaan,
to be
spilt by
Yahweh
in his
fury
for the
rising
of the
day of
one whose
beard will
drip with
fragrant
oil from
God’s own
horn of
choosing—
(2009)
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