October 19th, 2009 
Jojo Agot 
Jacob was on the run. He just committed a very serious breach of trust within his family. He deceived his own father and stole something very important from his only brother. His name means “deceiver” in Hebrew and right at that moment as he was running from home to save his own neck, he was literally living up to his name.
Then he slept in a lonely town and dreamed of a stairway to heaven where angels go up and down. He saw God standing up there and heard him say, “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.” (Genesis 28: 15).
Such grand promises. But wait a minute, wasn’t God supposed to lash out on him? He has never been a good boy. He schemed and manipulated and lied his way through life and now here he was, hearing God speak staggering promises of hope and blessings.
He never deserved any of this, I mean seriously, look at his story. His track record at that time was a far cry from the Jacob we remember from the Bible. But for reasons only God could know, He chose to reveal himself to Jacob at the time of his weakness, at the time when his world was crumbling down, when he was alone in the cold of the night without even a soft pillow under his head.
God met Jacob at the end of his road without any tone of accusation in His voice. His words didn’t even had a trace of rebuke, just overwhelming promises for him and his posterity. It was like God overlooked Jacob’s obvious flaws.
Psalms 103: 10 rings true:
He does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities…
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