We can divide the passage easily into two chunks demonstrating the wisdom of Jacob indifferent spheres. In 46:31-47:12 we see His wisdom in getting his family settled in Goshen, then in 47:13-27 we see his wisdom in ruling for Jacob. But this is only a way of dividing up the narrative; it is not the point of the narrative. Joseph has received a wisdom from above, but his is not the wisdom above all wisdoms.
When at the end of the text we are told how Israel has settled, gained possessions, and multiplied, you are not to be in awe of the wisdom of Joseph, but the wisdom and providence of God. God promised Jacob that He would make Him a great nation in Egypt (Genesis 46:4), here we see Him doing that. While the Egyptians struggle through the famine spending all their money then selling their cattle, land, and lives, God provides for His people, multiplies them, and forms them into a nation.
A couple of reflections are in order.
First, don’t adore the gift more than the giver. Any wisdom Joseph has is only the faintest echo of God’s. Lightning bugs are amazing creatures, but it’s a fool that celebrates their rear as being as brighter as the sun.
Second. the wisdom of God, like all of His other attributes, is for His covenant people. All of God is for us. This means no enemy is so smart that He can thwart His plans, nor are any of His children so foolish that they can clumsily demolish them.
Revel in this wisdom of God for you as Paul when He wrote,
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
‘For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?’
‘Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. – Romans 11:33-36
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