Grace is God on the move saying, “I’m with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you.”
Jacob certainly felt it was. After God appeared to him, Jacob said, “Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.”
How many people can say the same? They are unacquainted with the God who meets us. They believe in a God who created the world but not a God who’s involved in the world. A God who made the universe but not a God who makes a difference in the day-to-day. Christian atheists they are.
God was—and is—speaking to you. That is him, standing at the top of the ladder. Sending angels to help you. Receiving the angels who deliver your prayers.
God never gives up on you.
God’s grace isn’t a lucky charm crucifix on a necklace. God’s grace is a tiger in your heart.
God’s grace did not happen one time, long ago. God’s grace happens now, today… to anyone who’ll so much as give God a prayer.
His grace never quits.
That’s the kind of God he is—he’s the “God of Jacob.” Our God is the God of those who struggle and scrape, sometimes barely making it, hanging on for dear life.
So if you are looking for sterling-silver heroes of Scripture, I refer you to Daniel or Joseph. If you are aspiring to split Red Seas or call fire from heaven, Moses and Elijah would be more to your liking.
But if the years have left you cracked in a few places, if the bounce in your step has given way to a limp in your walk, if you wonder, honestly wonder, if you are God’s lost cause, then I’ve got just the story for you.
