Just wanted to share a quote from the book that we are reading in our Old Testament class on Wed. nights. We were going through the 'ups and downs' of Abraham's family tonight, and this was written about Jacob:
"...Here is a man who is a fugitive, on the run after swindling his brother and totally deceiving his father. This is hardly a man who deserves God's kindness.
Which is the very point of the story. God is not showing kindness to Jacob because Jacob deserves it. God is simply saying that nothing Jacob has done stands in the way of what God will do with him in the future. Through the example of Jacob, God is telling us the same thing. No matter how badly we have ruined our past, God simply asks us to rise above those mistakes and become what He calls us to be. This does not mean that He approves of what we did wrong in the past any more than He approved of Jacob's lying and cheating. But God does not want the weight of our past to impede the promise of our future."
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