Day 12

It is almost hard to imagine the amount of anxiety Jacob was experiencing as he prepared to meet his brother, Esau.  Chapter 32 lets us in on some of that anxiety.  After all, it had been 20 years since they had last met, and at that point Esau was prepared to kill Jacob.
But when they meet… things could not have gone better.  Perhaps it was just the passing of time, perhaps it was God at work on two hearts, perhaps it was a realigning of values and understanding the importance of their relationship over anything else, or perhaps it was a combination of all the above.
Jacob and Esau had both seen the blessings of the LORD in the years gone by.  They had both learned the value of forgiveness, and the ugliness of bitterness.
Jacob’s false expectations and assumptions put off an event that he should have perhaps done much earlier.  Sometimes we are guilty of justifying something in our mind and putting something off that we should be doing.

General Questions for each day:
Summarize the day’s Bible passage in your own words.
What thoughts, actions, attitudes or beliefs are addressed in the passage?
How is the Holy Spirit leading you to apply this passage to your life today?