Have you ever received a special message? Was it an unexpected message? Was the message overwhelming? What did you do with the message? Did you act on it? Did you ignore it? What would you do if you received an overwhelming message from God?
Sometimes we receive unexpected messages. Sometimes those messages are very good. In fact, they may sound too good to be true. We may not want to believe them so we will not be disappointed when they do not come true. Then we are amazed when they do.
Jacob received a message from God that sounded too good to be true. He was receiving a message he may have had trouble believing. However, he had just had a dream of a ladder reaching to heaven with angels going up and down it. So, his ability to believe what God was telling him was likely very high.
Jacob is told that he will be given the land in which he is sleeping. He is told that his offspring will be like the dust of the earth. That means it would not only be numerous, but his offspring would spread across the earth. Being followers of Christ, we become part of Jacobs offspring. As Paul states in Romans 11:17-24, we are grafted into Israel, God’s chosen people, because of Jesus Christ.
God gives us messages as well. Sometimes they come in odd ways. They may come through a dream. They may come from someone else. They may come in a small, quiet voice. Our lesson to learn is to listen and believe God’s messages, just as Jacob did. When we learn to listen for his messages, we will find that God speaks more often than we ever knew.
I pray we all believe that God gives us messages today. I pray we learn the lesson of Jacob. I pray each one of us listen for God’s messages and learn to hear him more often. God gives us messages today. Believe God’s messages. Listen for God’s messages.
Genesis 28:13-14 And the Lord stood beside him and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring; and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.”
Marty Pressey 