DAILY?READINGS: Judges 11:29 to 12:15; Isaiah 32; 1 Cor. 10:14 to 11:1
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me? Genesis 31:27
While Jacob clearly had God’s blessing to return to the land of his birth, he certainly didn’t have Laban’s. Whom was he to obey, God or man? Obviously, God’s command was the priority. However, that did not give Jacob the liberty to simply walk out on his father-in-law. Sometimes we may do things in the name of Christ, but our approach makes it become more of a shame to the cause of Christ. Family life and church fellowship are the two most common arenas for such tensions. Sadly it can lead to much heartache and disunity. God’s direction for an action must still be done in God’s way. —Norman Craig Funston
Be still, my soul! Thy God doth undertake;
To guide the future as He has the past. —K. von Schlegel