The Dream

He saw steps going up from the earth to heaven. He saw the angels of God going up and down these steps. And he saw the Lord standing above them. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac. I will give to you and your children after you the land where you are lying. They will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread out to the west and the east and the north and the south. Good will come to all the families of the earth because of you and your children. See, I am with you. I will care for you everywhere you go. And I will bring you again to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done all the things I promised you. Genesis 28:12-15

In the passage above, Jacob has a dream in which God tells him exactly how He is going to bless him. Jacob had done some very deceitful things to his brother Esau and the last thing you would expect God to say is how much he is going to bless him. But the first encounter Jacob has with God is through this dream - and he hears only good news.

We are so quick to point out all the wrong someone has done. We are never in any way looking to give them a blessing. In actuality, we want to see the individual disciplined and punished for their behavior. Scripture says God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are our ways His ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are God’s ways higher than our ways and God thoughts higher than our thoughts. It is easy to receive the generosity and grace from God but it can be difficult to give that grace to someone else, especially when we are the one who was mistreated.

Scripture teaches us to “…love the Lord your God with all our heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength…”  and “…love our neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31). Despite all the difficult things we see in this world, God reminds us that love is the greatest gift we can give. We can only give this kind of love when we stay constantly connected to the Word of God.

Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11

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