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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
the Third Week after Easter
the Third Week after Easter
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DELAYING GOD
Genesis 27:18-29
Selfishness delays God’s love-plans. There is no more unpromising character in the Old Testament than Jacob. Back of unscrupulous bargaining and unprincipled trickery was intensest selfishness. Why did God use him? As Abraham’s grandson he was one of the only two that could be used in the world-plan being worked out. He was the least unusable of the two. And he had to be changed before the plan could work out. He delayed God. Selfishness always does.
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