When Life gets Hard, God Shows Up

Jacob was running for his life.  His brother’s anger and hatred had him in a killing rage.  Jacob had to leave all he knew to become a fugitive.  He took to the hard and less traveled ways to keep from being an easy prey for Esau or others who might do him harm.  It wasn’t supposed to end this way; lonely, alone and on the run.  Rather than a celebration the family fragmented due to the stealth deceptive plan put into action by him and his mother.  What he saw to be the fulfillment of his dreams had turned out to be a nightmare and he was now all alone.  Have you ever felt abandoned and alone?  Have you found yourself a victim of your own selfish ambitions or motives?  No doubt all of us have been there at one time or another.  Yet Jacob is given comfort by the God of all comfort.  He sees Jacob in his distress, alone and full of fear and tears.  God is able to meet us in the valley of despair.  It is time to place your trust in Him and run to Him.  He is waiting and willing to receive you.

Verses of the Week:

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.   _{Ezekiel 37:26}