Recently, I’ve been thinking that I am far enough along in my walk with Christ to know that I should trust God: know that He is good, all the time, and that, among many things, He is a covenant-keeping God. But my study of the promise made to Abram and the subsequent journey of Israel has made me realise that I may have been...
Recently during our Heas Up Bible study, we were taken through the naming of Israel and reminded of how that name came about. Before becoming Israel, Jacob was Jacob: a man whose very name carried connotations of striving, grasping, and deception. Yet despite all of that, he became the recipient of God's blessings, passed down from Abraham. When I read the story of Jacob...
