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I am a retired VA employee who lives in Texas. I consider the characters of the Bible "family" as much as any I know or have known on earth. To be one of the Lord's beloved is the greatest thing I know. What good company!

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Bibledoorajar Speaks of Being Honest About Ourselves

     Bibledoorjar is on the road and today is visiting with a nephew and his family. Our great niece, Hannah, is six and she loves to teach school and put on plays. Visiting family joins with Mom and Dad to be successful actors or good students. Today, following a play in which Mom and Dad were actors and the aunts were the audience, the parents were declared great actors. When the aunts were placed in acting roles, we were declared SO BAD. It seems we couldn't even pretend to be a good SnowWhite or a wicked witch!
     For twenty years or so, God had been working with Jacob revealing to him his need for spiritual development and for more reliance on God's wisdom. For twenty years Jacob has vacillated between scheming and deceiving and learning to pray to God for His help. Sometimes he was great at scheming and sometimes he showed promise at relying on God. How patient God was to not give up on Jacob. Jacob was His man, called to carry out a great role, patriarchy,  in the history of God with people. Therefore, God did not give up on him even at times when there was more acting than spirituality.
    God wants to move us all away from trying to deceive others with our spiritual "acting" to a more honest and less pretense a confession that we still fall prey to scheming and deceiving. Thank Him for every time He helps you with this. Thank Him for His faithfulness to continue to help us. Esau may be before us, but we have a Great Helper in the Holy Spirit. He will complete His work, but He delights when we recognize the need for it. I have told Hannah today that it's not so much if what we say is "what can I do about....? but rather, Lord, what do you want me to do about...?" Lord, thank you for helping us with this lesson of life.

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