Thursday 29 Sep 2022

September 29: Genesis 28:10-15

Key Verse: Genesis 28:14
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.

Devotion:
How do you think God is going to talk to you when you lift up your prayers to Him? If we are honest we would all like to hear Him say something audibly so we can understand without question – but if we are also realistic, we will probably be so scared to hear Him speak we would think it was a ghost or something else instead of God!

Jacob was on his way to Harran after being in Beersheba mourning the loss of his father Isaac; he was obeying his father and getting out of Esau’s reach. When he stopped for a rest and sleep for the night he had a dream about a staircase reaching from earth up to Heaven. Angels were using the staircase to go to and from Heaven where the Lord God was. God reached out to Jacob in a dream to tell him his offspring would be more numerous than the dust of the earth covering all the land!

There was no audible voice this time, just a dream which was a bit strange! God tries to reach out to us in ways where we will know it is Him because of the circumstances; in this case a dream showing Jacob God was in Heaven above all the angels and speaking down to Jacob to tell Him of this blessing.

When God makes a promise to us, we can know it will come to pass because God will never go back on His word – no matter how impossible we think it may be! When we look back on the life and death of Jesus, we can think how impossible it all was, but still it all came true because this is what God promised would happen – not just to the first people on earth, but throughout the generations of mankind.

Points to Ponder:
Do you rely on God’s promises?

Will you trust His promises now you know they are true?