The scoundrel Jacob was in “this place”: where is “this place” this is my title to the sermon, but first The picture of Jesus rolling back the darkness with his own bare hands was part of the liturgy in the music and worship time. It is a dark place.
The title on the website is God Is Where You Are. I believe that.
The magic of reminiscence is God’s blessing of having a memory at all, no matter that age has diminished much of my short term memory ability.
Pastor reminded us that Jacob was sooo afraid for his life. A rock was his pillow and his brother was estranged from him for these years and had vowed to kill him for his having stolen the blessing from him. Jacob didn’t know that Esau had cooled from the original anger, through age and many other blessings that he had received from God.
The Ladder or stairway up and down out of Heaven. Jacob had awakened to the reality of spiritual activity that was around him. Jacob had been blind to these realities prior to this, but now he was aware. His relationship with God was solidified and he was able to trust God who was taking him into his confidence in this way. God said of Abraham, shall we hide from our friend Abraham what we are about to do? The blessing of the future was coupled with a deeper understanding of the spiritual realities and activities around him. The same with Jacob. The same with each of us.
Pastor said it was a door of greater revelation into the activities of God that came in the darkness of that moment. Keeping our eyes open for the open door of understanding that is provided in the darkness of difficulty was the application. I can relate to that. I can trust God who makes us understand him in the shadows of difficulty. God’s silences are loud and the darkness of fear and difficulty are the ushers into the already open door of communion with God. I am just chewing on an already clear expression of God’s word preached by my pastor.
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