Religion: Pulled to Safety

Pulled to Safety

Written by Dot McGinnis

Pulled to Safety

"With repparttar coming of dawn, repparttar 135726 angels urged Lot, saying, Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when repparttar 135727 city is punished. When he hesitated, repparttar 135728 men grasped his hand and repparttar 135729 hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of repparttar 135730 city, for repparttar 135731 LORD was merciful to them." Genesis 19:15-16

Sometimes, God has to drag us out of situations that are too dangerous for us because we lack repparttar 135732 strength to "flee" there, ourselves. Yet, we often question God's wisdom, like Lot did. God told him to flee to repparttar 135733 mountains but he insisted on staying in repparttar 135734 plain. Later, fear caused Lot to flee to repparttar 135735 mountains anyway; placing him exactly where God told him to go in repparttar 135736 first place. vs. 17-30 "So when God destroyed repparttar 135737 cities of repparttar 135738 plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of repparttar 135739 catastrophe that overthrew repparttar 135740 cities where Lot had lived." Genesis 19:29

God's Chosen Vessel

Written by Dot McGinnis

God's Chosen Vessel

"The earth trembles under an unloved woman..."

Proverbs 30:21-23

Leah was always second best, in repparttar eyes of Jacob and in repparttar 135725 eyes of others. Her sister Rachel was always being exalted over her. We see a perfect example of this in Genesis 31, verse 33.

Even though it had been Rachel who had stolen Laban's household gods, when it came to repparttar 135726 searching of repparttar 135727 tents, Rachel was repparttar 135728 one who was searched last because Jacob and Laban suspected her repparttar 135729 least.

And whenever Jacob and his family were reuniting once again with Esau and he feared for their safety (Genesis 33:2), Jacob put repparttar 135730 maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in repparttar 135731 rear because he knew they'd be safest there.

"Jacob ... loved Rachel more than Leah ..." (Genesis 29:30)

Often, it seems as if God's chosen ones are nothing more than second class citizens, in repparttar 135732 eyes of repparttar 135733 world. So it was with Leah.

Leah was repparttar 135734 one who was ignored--unwanted by everyone but God, that is! She was repparttar 135735 one He chose to mother repparttar 135736 tribe of Judah--His Son's tribe. Leah was His chosen vessel! (Genesis 35:23)

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