MinistryMessages
September 7, 2019
This entry is part [part not set] of 2576 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear, and I return to my father’s house in safety, then the Lord will be my God
– Genesis 28:20-21
Aren’t we like Jacob? None of us starts out spiritual. Like Jacob, who held his brother’s heel at birth, bought the birthright with stew, and tricked his father for the blessing, perhaps we are still struggling to be first. Like Jacob at Bethel, perhaps we selfishly seek things from God rather than God Himself. If so, we haven’t seen God yet. We may only be shouting spiritual slogans without having touched the Lord.
Adapted from A Sketch of Genesis, by Titus Chu, page 139.
Monday: “Forgetting God” (1)