Seize the Moment – Day 420
God’s Intervention for His People!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, May 11.
After six years under the new employment contract, Jacob has fled Laban. He does so in fear of Laban because of his twenty-year track record of deceitfulness. Jacob’s instincts are correct and Laban gives chase, but God, once again, intervenes to protect the patriarch. Not because Jacob earned it, but because of God’s grace!
From Genesis 31:41-42, listen to Jacob’s words to Laban right before they make a covenant with God to not harm one another and to go their separate ways:
These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.
How did God intervene on behalf of Jacob the previous night?
Genesis 31:24 records, “God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, ‘Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.’”
This is not the first time, nor would it be the last, that God used a dream to protect one of His chosen people. Apart from this dream, Laban would have not feared the God of Jacob and tempered his ambition to seize back what he still considered his own (Genesis 31:43).
Is God still in the business of intervening for His chosen people today?
Absolutely! Romans 8:34 reminds us of God’s once-and-for-all intervention, “Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.”
Seize the moment and pray for God’s intervention in Jesus’ Name.