Genesis 48:1–22 "Born in Egypt, but Heirs of Canaan"

God’s will was that the covenant promises would pass on to the next generation in the unexpected way. That’s the divine pattern. He uses the weak to shame the strong. In Jacob’s adoption of Ephraim and Manasseh, we see Jacob embrace this divine pattern. After years of learning to discern the grace of God, he gets it right. This gracious God still works like this in the world today. And because that’s the case, we’re called, like Joseph, to put away our assumptions, and embrace God’s way of grace.