God is in the business of doing the complete opposite of human instinct, logic, and intuition. He uses the foolish things to confound the wise, the weak things of this world to overcome the strong, He delights in death to reign in life.
It delights God to use broken, weak, and incomplete people to bring about His perfect will on earth as it is in Heaven.
God is a covenant maker... While He will not break His word or take away from it He does add special and personal promises to each and everyone of His children based on the relationship He has with them. One such child of God was named Jacob.
Genesis 28:12-15
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken to thee of.
Jacob was very self-aware. Every story the Bible records about Jacob, from the very moment he was born, is tainted with selfish intentions.
He was a man that had faith in the promises of God to come true, only his faith was less in the power of God to fulfill prophecy, and more was in the power of Jacob to accomplish it. The covenant God made with his grandfather Abraham and his father Isaac was well and good but Jacob needed something with his name on it, and there was nothing that was going to hinder or get in his way.
Jacob's faith in himself led into very dark situations. It put scars on him that would resurface in the worst of times. Yet God infused Jacob with confidence to lead him down the ultimate path of surrender. The extension of God's covenant is that Jacob would never be able to outrun God. He would be with him every step and misstep along the way.
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