A Covenant

01/24/2007

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                  Focus:  A Covenant

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 31:44-46

            Message of the verse:  “44  "So now come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me."  45  Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.  46  Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.”

            Many times in Jacob’s life he can be seen as a man who does not push for the things that he believes in wholeheartedly, but is more of a laid back kind of a guy.  God uses his personality as He does with all of His children, and at this particular time in Jacobs life, as in many other times, God protects him, and he did it by causing Laban to dream and in that dream God tells him not to say anything good or bad about Jacob, because Jacob belonged to God.  It is at this time that Laban wants to make a covenant with Jacob, and it was probably done out of fear of him because Jacob’s God was with Jacob and since Laban could not use Jacob to be blessed by His God he must fear Jacob and thus the covenant.

            Jacob goes along with this and begins to assemble the stones which will represent the covenant between him and Laban and so the covenant process began.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Because I am a child of God He has promised to take care of me and I believe His promises.

The Word of God has been refreshing to me as I read and studied it this morning.  It has also been convicting to my heart.   

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust in the Lord to teach me more about contentment, and to direct my path each day, that I may go where He wants me to go and  do what He wants me to do.