Friday

Jacob 

woke 

from 

his 

sleep 

and 

said 

"Surely 

the 

Lord 

is in 

this 

place 

and I 

did not 

know it.” 

And 

he was 

afraid 

and 

said

"How awesome is this place!

This is none other than the house of God, 

and this is the gate of heaven.”  

Genesis 28:17-18

This comes right after Jacob's dream of the ladder set up between heaven and earth. Too often I just think -“Oh yea! Jacob's ladder! Cool!”and scurry past... But it really struck me again today that this follows hard on the heels of our great and renowned patriarch Jacob stealing his brother Essau's birthright and Then tricking his father Issac out of the blessing that was meant for Essau...  As our friend Paul says somewhere All Scripture is inspired by God and useful...  God's love and self-revelation are demonstrably not reserved for the deserving, the worthy or the good...