{"id":1756,"date":"2020-02-13T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2020-02-09T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T04:33:22","slug":"jacobs-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"Jacob’s Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes I discover <\/em>a new take on an old scripture passage. Sometimes I read <\/em>a different take and think, “Wow. Why didn’t I see that before?” And other times, I read a different take and say, “Huh?!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider Jacob’s prayer after his “Jacob’s Ladder” experience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, \u201cIf God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father\u2019s household, then the LORD will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God\u2019s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.\u201d (Genesis 28.20 – 22, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Jacob the conniver, the cheater, the one who just lied to his father to steal his brother’s blessing after he’d already conned him out of his birthright. The “prayer” sounds to me like Jacob at his best, trying to cut a deal: “If you will take care of me and bring me back here, then you can be my God, and, to sweeten the deal, I will cut you in for a tenth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think it’s the best prayer, so imagine my surprise when I read an email from Steve Cleary, producer of the new Pilgrim’s Progress<\/a> movie saying this about this prayer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a person is looking for a prayer to pray daily, I think Jacob\u2019s is as pure as any. Are we willing to trust God for all things and acknowledge Him as our God every day? —<\/em>Steve Cleary–you can read his full remarks here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whoa! Talk about a different take! What can we learn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n