HE PROMISES TO KEEP HIS PROMISES.
JACOB GOT OFF TO A BAD START IN HIS
SPIRITUAL LIFE. FIRST, HE TALKED TO HIS OLDER
BROTHER, ESAU, OUT OF THE INHERITANCE HE
WAS SUPPOSED TO GET AS FIRSTBORN. LATER,
HE TRICKED HIS FATHER, ISSAC, INTO THINKING
HE WAS ESAU SO THAT HE COULD GET THE
SPECIAL BLESSING ISSAC WANTED TO GIVE ESAU.
IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE MUCH OF A CHANCE TO DO
ANYTHING GREAT FOR GOD. IN FACT, WE MIGHT
THINK HIS BELIEF IN GOD KIND OF FLIMSY. BUT
GOD HAS CHOSEN JACOB. IN SPITE OF SNEAKY
THINGS HE'D DONE, THE LORD APPEARED TO
JACOB IN A DREAM AND SAID "I WILL NOT LEAVE
UNTIL I HAVE DONE WHAT I HAVE DONE WHAT I
HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU.''
THERE MAY BE TIMES GODS PROMISES SEEM
REALLY OUT THERE- WAY BEYOND THE REALM OF
POSSIBILITY- ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU KNOW YOU
HAVEN'T KEPT YOUR END OF THE DEAL. EVEN
WHEN YOUR FAITH WAS STRONGER THAN
JACOB'S WAS, THERE MAY BE DAYS WHEN YOU
WANT TO SAY, "NO WAY. GOD ISN'T GOING TO DO
THAT NOT FOR ME." DON'T GIVE IN. INSTEAD,
LISTEN WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH EVERY
OUNCE OF YOUR FAITH TO HEAR GOD SAY, " I
WILL NOT LEAVE YOU UNTIL I HAVE DONE WHAT I
HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU."
