Homecoming
“The twenty years of exile are ended. Jacob is returning as a patriarch of his own clan, prosperous, independent, and more confident than ever that God is with him. His trials at Uncle Laban’s have not broken his spirit; on the contrary, adversity has made a man out of him. He has acquired enough children to become a tribe, enough possessions with which to provide for his family, sufficient dignity and courage to declare his independence, sufficient clout and standing to establish political agreements with other clans and nations, a newfound desire to return to the land of his father (and to Isaac himself), and perhaps most important, a growing awareness of his dependence on God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and now also the God of Jacob. None of this would have happened had he stayed home. He has struggled, he has suffered, he has endured, and he has come out much the stronger and better for it.”
How might your present difficulties be preparing you for future possibilities?