Jacob's Ladder
Jacob is a clever, ambitious man, but his twenty-year sojourn away from home will humble him and make him into the man he needs to be if he will successfully pass the Covenant on to the next generation.
A recurring theme during much of Jacob’s journey will be about the limits of sight. After his amazing dream with the ladder that goes to heaven, he wakes up and says, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it!” [Genesis 28:16]. Jacob, the clever man, learns that there are things he doesn’t understand and “see” properly.
That lesson about the limits of sight is made more clear in the 20 years he lives with Laban and in all his troubles with women. For example, Jacob literally sleeps with the wrong woman on his wedding night!
Part of Jacob’s humbling and his formation is for him to admit that there are limits to what he can see.
The same lesson applies to us:
What if you aren’t seeing the events of your life correctly, either?
The way to see clearly is to see through Christ. Use his life, death, and resurrection as the lens through which you look at your life, and you’ll be seeing correctly.