"And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes."
Genesis 46:2-4
I like how God comforts Jacob here. Jacob is doing something scary and hard, and God reassures him and promises that things will be okay in the end. ... I think God does the same thing for us in our lives if we are open to it. Jacob's family grew into something huge, nurtured by the Egyptians, and God kept his promise to bring them out of there later and back to the land he had promised to their fathers. ... As he will keep his promises to us. Not in our time of course, but in His... all his words will be fulfilled. Which happens to be an excellent reason to study God's words, and to listen to them. Today, let's pray, and also study and learn of the word of God given to others throughout history.
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