God Is There

Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Today's reading titled God's there was written by Tim Gustus and Aubrey bought a fleece lined coat for her aging father, but he died before he could wear it so she tucked a note of encouragement with a $20 bill into the pocket and donated the jacket to charity 90 miles away, unable to endure his family's dysfunction any longer.

19-year-old Kelly left his house without grabbing a coat. He knew of only one place to turn the home of his grandmother who prayed for him.

Hours later he stepped off the bus and into his grandma's arms shielding him from the winter when she said we've got to get you a coat at the mission store. Kelly tried on a coat. He liked slipping his hands into the pockets he found an envelope with the $20 bill and Aubrey's note in Genesis 27 Jacob fled his dysfunctional family in fear for his life when he stopped for the night. God revealed himself to Jacob in a dream.

I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, God told him.

Jacob vowed if God will give me food to eat and close to where then the Lord will be my God. Jacob made a rudimentary altar and name the spot God's house. Kelly takes Aubrey's note and that $20 wherever he goes. Each serves as a reminder that no matter where we run.

God is there, today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from Genesis chapter 28 versus 10 through 15 in verses 20 through 22. Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Herrin. When he reached a certain place. He stopped for the night because the sun had set, taking one of the stones there. He put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw stairway resting on the earth with its top reaching to heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it there above it stood the Lord and he said I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendents the land on which you are lying your descendents will be like the dust of the earth and you will spread out to the West into the East to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you now picking up at verse 20 then Jacob made a vow, saying, if God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and close to where so that I return safely to my father's household. Then the Lord will be my God in this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house and of all that you give me I will give you a 10.

Let's pray father, thank you for the reminder that no matter where we are. You are there with us.

Thank you for watching over us on this journey of life and for providing everything we need when we are struggling remind us that you are always with us and will carry us through. Thank you Lord it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries