Daily Meditation - Monday 25August 2008 - RULES WHICH OBSCURE THE MORE IMPORTANT

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When God knocks on your door
*** are you ready to let him in (Revelations 3:20)?***
  • God offers each of us an open door to his kingdom,
  • but we can shut ourselves out if we reject his offer.
  • What is the door to heaven?
  • When Jacob fled from his brother Essau, who wanted to kill him for stealing his birthright (Genesis 27:41),
  • Jacob sought refuge in the wilderness.
  • There God pursued him and gave him a vision that both changed his life and the life of his people.
As Jacob slept on a star-lit hillside God showed him a great ladder or stairway that extended from earth to heaven.
  • This stairway was filled with a multitude of angels ascending and descending before the throne of God.
  • God opened heaven to Jacob, not only to give him a place of refuge and peace,
  • but to offer him the blessing of dwelling in intimate friendship with the living God.
  • God spoke to Jacob and renewed the promises which he had made to his grandfather Abraham and his father Isaac,
  • and now to Jacob and his posterity.
  • God promised not only to bless and protect Jacob, but to make him and his descendants a blessing to all the nations as well. When Jacob awoke he Read on HERE
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