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Israel, also known as Jacob, brought his family to Egypt to live there with Joseph, his beloved son. Israel was leaving the Promised Land for Egypt. God appears to him with the message that God would be with him and make him a great nation.
Jacob left the land with God’s assurance that the people would become a great nation eventually and return. The people went, grew, and returned the land. This is the story of the book of Exodus. It was also the story of the Exile when the people of Israel were expelled from their land to the lands of the north. In the Exile, God remained with God’s people and eventually led them back to the Promised Land.
In Jesus’ day, Jesus was driven by God’s Spirit into the desert so that God could call Jesus out of Egypt into the Promised Land (see Matthew 2:15) as God’s own Son.
It is so, also, in our lives. When we are called into deserts or away from our homes and comfort zones, God remains with us as God remained with Jacob on hos trek to see Joseph and live under his care. We have our own geneses, our departures and returns, and God is with us through it all.