That Parcel of Ground

John 4:5-6 KJV
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

I had in mind all that had transpired on that parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. It had been almost two thousand years.
• Israel had won the ground from the Canaanites.
• They had divided it among the tribes and developed it. but
• They had also rebelled against God on it.

Knowing that Jacob had given it to Joseph, whom God had used to save this people, still they ignored its significance and taken it with them into rebellion. This parcel of ground had witnessed no doubt, battles among Brethren as Judah and Israel fought. And it had been taken by the Assyrians when they conquered the northern kingdom. All through these two thousand years the history of Jacob and Joseph had been kept. God's dealings with His children continued to be remembered while the very ones who remembered ignored the God who had so moved among His people on this land.

So many things can happen in a person's life that they tread on hallowed ground every day without stopping to meet with the one who makes it hallowed.
• Would to God we would stop and think and return to the God of our fathers
• Would to God we would consider His hand in lives past and
• Would to God we would seek His hand in our own lives.