The Lord Be With You Today!
Genesis 32:10
"I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness
You have shown your servant.
(Jacob continues praying the first prayer recorded in the Bible
and gives us a model for our own prayer.
After invoking God and stating his personal history with God,
Jacob acknowledges his own unworthiness,
stating how undeserving he is of even the least of God's mercies.
That the Lord God has given us His great provision of salvation in His Son
is not only more than we deserve, it is the opposite of what we deserve.
And His blessings only begin there. His salvation includes much more:
provision, kindness, and faithfulness to us are only the beginning.)
I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan,
(Next, he states how destitute and alone he was earlier
as he departed all that was familiar to him and all that he had lived for.
When we leave the life of sin to begin our walk with the Lord,
when we cross the Jordan, we walk alone
and away from all that we had held close to us before,
with only the Lord to guide and protect us.)
but now I have become two camps."
(Now, after Jacob's twenty years of exile and of discipline and molding
into a different person than the one he was when he left this land,
the Lord has mightily blessed Jacob even during the discipline and reshaping.
Though he had left empty-handed with only his staff in hand,
he returns now in plenty, having been mightily blessed and given great increase.
As the Lord takes us unto Himself and grows us into His Image,
He blesses us even in the oftentimes painful places of maturing.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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