FAITH: God was here and I didn't know
God was here and I didn't know said young Jacob. Third generation from Abraham he knew about God but he had a big choice of gods and hadn't yet chosen to unite with the true God.
God is not unavailable, he is not in hiding. Our task is not to find God but to be able to recognise him and his activity.
Jacob had a dream which he called a vision, he could just as easily have dismissed it, but the dream spoke to him so strongly that he knew that God had visited him in his sleep. That's a little unexpected because Jacob had done nothing to deserve a visit from God, in fact he had done a lot that we would expect to put him out of favor with God. He had deliberately and meticulously deceived his father and twice taken harmful advantage of his brother. His brother was so angry with him that he wanted to kill him. Jacob was making a long journey to get away from his brother.
Our life's task is not to find God because God is already present. The time comes in some lives when circumstances help us open our eyes to the presence of God.
God has purpose and intention to unite with his absentee children and to involve them in his plans for the restoration of all things. That intention is directly focused on you, the reader. Only one person can frustrate his intention - you.
Genesis 28: 16-21
God is not unavailable, he is not in hiding. Our task is not to find God but to be able to recognise him and his activity.
Jacob had a dream which he called a vision, he could just as easily have dismissed it, but the dream spoke to him so strongly that he knew that God had visited him in his sleep. That's a little unexpected because Jacob had done nothing to deserve a visit from God, in fact he had done a lot that we would expect to put him out of favor with God. He had deliberately and meticulously deceived his father and twice taken harmful advantage of his brother. His brother was so angry with him that he wanted to kill him. Jacob was making a long journey to get away from his brother.
Our life's task is not to find God because God is already present. The time comes in some lives when circumstances help us open our eyes to the presence of God.
God has purpose and intention to unite with his absentee children and to involve them in his plans for the restoration of all things. That intention is directly focused on you, the reader. Only one person can frustrate his intention - you.
Genesis 28: 16-21
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