3 Point of Reference

Genesis 28 :
10. So Jacob left Beer-sheba and journeyed toward Haran.
11. That night, when he stopped to camp at sundown, he found a rock for a headrest and lay down to sleep,
12. and dreamed that a staircase reached from earth to heaven, and he saw the angels of God going up and down upon it.
13. At the top of the stairs stood the Lord. "I am Jehovah," he said, "the God of Abraham, and of your father Isaac. The ground you are lying on is yours! I will give it to you and to your descendants. .....
16. Then Jacob woke up. "God lives here!" he exclaimed in terror. "I've stumbled into his home! This is the awesome entrance to heaven!"
LB

The angels - God's ministering servants - went up and down the staircase between earth and heaven in Jacob's eventful dream. But at the top of the stairs stood the Lord. He introduced Himself to Jacob in this way: "I am Jehovah."

What exactly was that meant to convey to Jacob?
Jehovah is the old Hebrew name for God. It means the One who is unchangeable, the One who always is.

Jehovah is the One who was in the past the God of Jacob's grandfather, Abraham and He was also the God of Jacob's father, Isaac. In other words, He kept His promises to Abraham and also to Isaac. He is unchanging - always the same. His promises are sure.

Then God makes a promise to Jacob: that this land will belong to Jacob and his descendants. The implication here is: since Jehovah kept His promise to Abraham and Isaac, He can be trusted to keep His promise to Jacob also.

This same God has also made promises to us who are alive now. The apostle Peter puts it this way in his letter:
2. Do you want more and more of God's kindness and peace? Then learn to know him better and better.
3. For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us!
4. And by that same mighty power he has given us all the other rich and wonderful blessings he promised; for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rottenness all around us, and to give us his own character.
(I Peter 2) LB

Imagine that God wants to put His own character within us!
When He does that it means that I can be like Him in my thoughts, words and actions.
It means that my whole life can be pleasing to Him.
What an honour!

Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for being the One who does not change.
Thank You for being the point of reference in my life that does not move.
Thank You for always being there.
Thank You for being the One I can place my whole trust in.
Help me to understand increasingly all that You are to me, so I can trust You more,
in Jesus' name,
Amen.