DAY 12 Read Genesis 34 through 36
Today's reading has some unlovely episodes and an account of Jacob's deep sorrow at the death of his beloved Rachel. But through it all shines the promise of God's loving care.
Memory gem: "I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went" (Genesis 35:3).
Thought for today:
Often God's protective hand is over us when we do not know it. One time, in the Colorado Rockies, a hunter with his young grandson stood in the deep snow and looked at a giant pine that had been killed by lightning. The wind was blowing and the tree swayed in the stormy gusts. After a few moments' rest they started on, when without warning the mighty pine crashed to the ground and covered the tracks they had made in the snow only a few seconds before. There was but a step between them and death. They bowed their heads right there and thanked God for His protecting mercy. This experience made a profound impression on that boy--I know, for I was that boy.
Here is another point: The troubles and sorrows that come upon us can be the means in God's providence of drawing us back to Himself. No religion except the religion of Christ brings to those in trouble the mighty truth that even our sorrows may be a manifestation of God's mercy rather than of His wrath. In Hebrews 12:6, 7 we read: "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If we endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"
Today's reading has some unlovely episodes and an account of Jacob's deep sorrow at the death of his beloved Rachel. But through it all shines the promise of God's loving care.
Memory gem: "I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went" (Genesis 35:3).
Thought for today:
Often God's protective hand is over us when we do not know it. One time, in the Colorado Rockies, a hunter with his young grandson stood in the deep snow and looked at a giant pine that had been killed by lightning. The wind was blowing and the tree swayed in the stormy gusts. After a few moments' rest they started on, when without warning the mighty pine crashed to the ground and covered the tracks they had made in the snow only a few seconds before. There was but a step between them and death. They bowed their heads right there and thanked God for His protecting mercy. This experience made a profound impression on that boy--I know, for I was that boy.
Here is another point: The troubles and sorrows that come upon us can be the means in God's providence of drawing us back to Himself. No religion except the religion of Christ brings to those in trouble the mighty truth that even our sorrows may be a manifestation of God's mercy rather than of His wrath. In Hebrews 12:6, 7 we read: "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If we endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"
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