“And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:”
But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. The revival of Jacob's spirit — the return of the life that had been diminishing since the loss of Joseph — is the physical expression of the resurrection of hope. The carts are the evidence that makes the news believable. The application: the spirit that revives when the impossible news is confirmed by tangible evidence is the spirit that has been sustained through grief by nothing but the tenacity of love.
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