“Finishing well”

This word may be familiar to us but I want to present it in a different perspective. God is looking for people who can walk with him and finish the race successfully for the glory of God.

God is not looking @ your past but he is concern about your future, to work with you and to help you out in this journey. If you are willing to change or transform and allow God to work in your life; your life will be blessing to so many people. God will use you to accomplish his plan and purposes through your life.

I want to take your attention to the life of Jacob. He was a deceiver; he cheated his brother and took his birth right. But you know in the course of life God started to work in his life. He changed a lot. Jacob was running away from his brother because of fear. Because he cheated him, he was afraid of his brother

There are several occasions God spoke to Jacob and then God changed his name. Jacob means deceiver but God changed his name to Israel. Praise the Lord! if you are willing to work with GOD, WALK WITH GOD he never remember your past but he will allow you to have a new beginning and new pace of life that trust God alone. That’s what we see from the life of Jacob.

When we reach towards end of Jacob life you see the how he changes. he changed a lot in the course of life.

What are the characters developed in Jacob’s life?

• Cheater/ Deceiver become Israel
•  He completely trusted God        
•  He become so humble
•  Admitting his hardship

47: 9 Jacob replied , “ I have lived for 130 hard years, but I am still not nearly as old as many of my ancestors .”

48:15 God who has been my shepherded all my life and the angel who has kept me from all harm

what a wonderful finishing Jacob had?? Though he started his life as deceiver he ends with a man who walked with God and having Godly characters in his life.