Nuthin’

I read and spent time with Papa today, but I got nuthin new for today.  It was a great day, and O.C. was real good, but no new revelation for today.

Wind and Waves pt. 5

I really don’t have anything to talk about.  I am still looking at this wind and waves thing.  Right now I have nothing new.

Jacob still doesn’t get it

I read Genesis 29, 30 and part of 31.  I still am struck by how Jacob didn’t get it.  Jacob is the patriarch of the Twelve Tribes, shouldn’t he get it fron day one?  Shouldn’t he be walking around giving glory to God at all times?  I find it humorous that after the way he fought with Esau that he himself id deceived into marrying Leah and then after he gets Rachel he lives with continuous sibling rivalry.  God can be funny.

Anyway, Jacob makes a deal with Laban to get the spottled, speckled, etc portion of his flocks.  He then goes through some elaborate scheme to make the animals only bare spottled and speckled offspring.  Two things jump out.  First, Jacob is still conniving and deceptive.  Second, he believes that his superstitions are what make the animals bare the spotted offspring.  Did he forget that God told him he would bless him?  How bad must Esau have been for God to not have simply said “This guy is pathetic.  I’m going to be true to what I promised Abraham and Isaac, but I had better go try and do it through Esau.”  Throgh this entire process, Isaac never gives God the glory.  It is only what he has done that makes it all possible.  in 31 he does admit that God protected him during all of this.

I guess I have to wonder if we, if I, ever do this.  God has made promises to me about my future.  So, when things go well do I give God the glory or do I believe that it happened because of my abilities?  I can tell you this, I truly believe that without God I am nothing.  So, if I am not gving Him the glory, CALL ME ON IT!