Day 24 – The Boy With the Dreams
The Boy With the Dreams. God tells Jacob to go back to Bethel. The place where the ladder touched the ground. The place where a fugitive slept on a stone and woke up knowing that God was in that place. Jacob has been away from Bethel for twenty years through Haran, through Laban, through the […]
Day 23 – The Night Everything Changed
The Night Everything Changed. Jacob has been running most of his life. Running from Esau after the stolen blessing. Running from Laban after twenty years of labour and manipulation. And now, finally heading home, he gets word that Esau is coming to meet him with four hundred men. Jacob is terrified. And the terror is […]
Day 22 – When God Says It Is Time to Go
When God Says It Is Time to Go. Jacob has been in Haran for twenty years. Twenty years away from the land of promise, from his parents, from Bethel where he saw the ladder and heard the voice of God. He arrived with nothing but a stone for a pillow. He leaves with two wives, […]
Day 21 – The Ladder Is Still Standing
The Ladder Is Still Standing. Jacob is not an easy man to like at the start of his story. He is a schemer. A manipulator. A man who waits in the kitchen with stew while his brother is out working, who dresses in his brother’s clothes and stands in front of his blind father and […]
Day 20 – The God Who Stays
The God Who Stays Abraham is one hundred and seventy-five years old when he dies. The text says he breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. Full of years. It is one of the most peaceful epitaphs in Scripture […]
Day 19 – God Will Provide the Lamb
God Will Provide the Lamb. There are chapters in the Bible that you read differently depending on where you are in life. Genesis 22 is one of them. When you are young and faith is easy, it reads like a story about obedience. When you have loved someone so fiercely that losing them would undo […]
Day 18 – Fire, Salt, and the Laugh That Changed
Fire, Salt and the Laugh That Changed Yesterday we left Abraham walking with God toward Sodom, interceding for a city full of people he didn’t know. He bargained God down to ten righteous people. If there were ten, the city would be spared. Today we find out there weren’t ten. There was one family. And […]
Day 17 – When You Try to Help God Along
When You Try To Help God Along Yesterday, Abram stood under a sky full of stars and believed the impossible promise of God. It was one of the great moments of faith in the entire Bible. Today, we find out what happens when the waiting gets too long. Because the promise was made in Genesis […]
Day 16 – The Promise That Started Everything
The Promise That Started Everything We have spent twelve days in the book of Job. Twelve days of suffering and silence and whirlwind and restoration. And now we step back into Genesis and the air changes completely. Job was a man tested in a life already built. Abram is a man called into a life […]
Day 15 – I Had Heard. Now I Have Seen.
I Had Heard. Now I Have Seen. We have been in the book of Job for twelve days. Twelve days of suffering, argument, silence, accusation, poetry, and thunder. And today it ends. Not with a tidy explanation. Not with God revealing the reason behind the suffering. But with something far more transformative than an explanation. […]
