In Genesis 31:3, in our Bible reading plan for today
Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
As much as to say, “I will be more with you in Canaan than I ever have been in this place, which is not the land of promise. I will give you My special Presence if you will get away into the place of the separated life and walk with Me as your father Isaac did.” It was very sweet, many years ago, to some of us to hear the Lord say, “I am with you,” and to know that it was true, for, “truly, our fellowship was with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.” But it may, at this hour, be very opportune if the Lord should renew His promise to us by saying, “I will be with you.”
You are commencing a new form of life. You are entering on new trials. You are undertaking new duties. And now comes in the new promise, “I will be with you.” If those upon whom you had a right to rely have turned against you. If those who were really indebted to you have become envious of you—”yet, nevertheless,” says God—”I will be with you.” Jacob’s journey was to be a very venturous one. He knew that Laban would not like it and, probably, would pursue him. But God says, “Go, and I will be with you.” He knew, also, that his brother Esau would be pretty sure to take vengeance upon him for the sorry trick he had played on him and that touched his conscience.
Jacob feared and trembled, but God said, “I will be with you.” The most plain road in the world is wrong if God does not bid us take it! And the roughest and most unpromising way will turn out to be safe and right if God commands our journey.
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