1Ⅳ God’s dealing with Jacob is a full picture of the Holy Spirit’s discipline and His transforming work in the New Testament believers to deal with their natural disposition so that Christ may be formed in them, fully grown in them, unto maturity; this is God’s blessing us and making us a blessing to others that they may be supplied with the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity—Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18; Heb. 6:1a; Gen. 12:1-3; Ezek. 34:26; Num. 6:22-27:
2A Jacob’s life shows that a natural person must pass through breaking in order to become Israel, a prince of God; what God tears down through our environment is our worthless self, our natural disposition; however, what God builds into us is Himself, the peerless, supereminent, and infinite One—1 Cor. 3:12.
3B God destined Jacob to live a struggling life all his days; He sovereignly arranged every circumstance, situation, and person in Jacob’s life and caused them all to work together for Jacob’s good so that He could transform Jacob, a supplanter and a heel holder, into Israel, a prince of God—Gen. 25:26; 32:24-32.
4C The strongest manifestation of Jacob’s maturity in life (the last stage of transformation) is the fact that Jacob blessed everyone; his supplanting hands became blessing hands; blessing is the overflow of God as life to others through the maturity in life—47:7, 10; 48:14-16; 49:1-28.
13Further Reading: CWWL, 1953, vol. 3, “The Experience of Life,” chs. 11-12; CWWL, 1953, vol. 1, “Knowing Life and the Church,” chs. 19-20; Life-study of Genesis, msg. 67