Hello and Welcome back...Were gonna mix things up a bit today..is that ok? Today we read Genesis 35:1-29...if you haven't done that yet do it now.One thing I love about The Lords Word is that he is telling us a story. We are learning about a Man whom the Lord has blessed and his family... just as He had promised he would. We are learning about a man named Jacob, and his wife Rebekah whom he loved. We are seeing the Lord speak to him through dreams and visions and we are seeing him follow what the Lord is telling him...As did his father before him and his father before that. We are seeing the Lords hand at work and we are seeing how mistakes are made and how the Lord still leads them back to where He called them to be. In the process they build altars and give thanks to the Lord for his guidance as their eyes are open to what The Lord has in store for them. Let's continue on with the story....
1Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;
3and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."
The rest of the story if you haven't read it yet is here.
The story we read today tells of how a man(Jacob) was called back into direction by the Lord and he followed. Do you ever feel the Lord is trying to tell you something? Are you following his voice? As we ponder on the verses read today let us stop and ask the Lord if he would like to tell us something...is it time for a new direction or are we doing what he has called us to do?
please join me in tomorrow's reading of Genesis 36:1-43
