“And behold, I am with thee; . . . I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.” Genesis 28:15
God is an acting God. We may think that hearing sound doctrine is the only means of grace; but his means are practical, the chastening of experience, the provision of a host of different circumstances in our lives for training and profit. We may, like Jacob, represent unpromising material for him, but he works on patiently with us. He is more tenacious than we are in the pursuit of his goal.
And here is further ground for encouragement. We do not have to know what work is needed or how it is to be realized in order that God may effect what he has set out to do with us. The most unpromising people of all are those who are wrong but who do not know it; yet even so God has his own way of bringing light into their darkness. In his own time and his own way he will finish the task he has set himself.
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