January 11, 2022: SOAP #4422:  Genesis 27-28; Psalm 4; Luke 11

SCRIPTURE:  Genesis (NIV) 28:10 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.”

OBSERVATION: The Creator of the Universe was talking to one man, Jacob.  God was not demanding that Jacob serve Him and fulfill His plans.  God was telling Jacob what He (GOD) would do for Jacob!!!  God was not looking for promises from Jacob; He was making promises to Jacob!

APPLICATION:  God does want me to serve Him.  He wants me to be committed to doing His will.  But the more I understand what God is doing, the more I see that what God does for me is much more than what I will ever be able to do for Him! 

God is a promise-maker and promise-keeper.  His greatest joy is for me to believe Him and act like His promises are true. 

God wants me as a trophy of His love and grace.  He wants the world to see what He has done for me and what He is doing in me.  And not only that, consider Ephesians 3:10.  God is using us to demonstrate His great wisdom to “principalities and powers” in “heavenly places.”  WOW!!! 

PRAYER:  Heavenly Father, you have me as a trophy of your love and grace. You have set me on display so that others can see your work in and through me.  You want people to see me.  You want beings in the heavenlies to see how much I love you.  Amen.

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