Living in the Promise

 DEVOTION

GENESIS

LIVING IN THE PROMISE

Gen 28:10-15

10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

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Once again, God renews or reminds Jacob of the promise He made to Abraham and to Isaac and now Jacob receives that assurance the promise of God will be accomplished. God has never reneged on his promise, and we can be sure that our promise will come to pass. We may not have been promised any physical land as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have, but we have been promised the paradise of God which is for all eternity. It must have been incredible for Jacob to have the vision of this stairway to heaven with all the angels ascending and descending. What a powerful perception of the way to heaven, although we will not need those stairs for Jesus will raise us up from the earth to meet him in the sky and take off into the heavens into paradise. However, God has also promised us that he would never leave us nor forsake us. Just as he promised Jacob that he would watch over him wherever he went and that he would bring him back to this land, God watches over us wherever we go. That could mean as we continue our walk with him, doing that which he has called us to, or it could mean that if we were to stray a little or get distracted by the world’s system, he would bring us back to the land, the path he has for us. Just the thought that God Almighty, who through Jesus has made everything that has been made, the earth and all that is in it, and all the universe, that man is now beginning to be able to see such a vast portion of it with these newer powerful telescopes, yet still only a portion of what God has spoke into existence, is watching over us. He knows the hairs on our heads, in fact, he has them numbered. This is how close he watches over us. He knows our thoughts before we think them. Not sure how that works exactly, but we know that is true because he is God Almighty, and nothing is impossible with him. Because we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior and want to follow him, God will indeed make sure that he brings us back to his throne room in the heavenly realms where Jesus will open that book of life and call out our name before the Father. Praise God we are assured we live in God’s promise.