Sometimes it takes a crisis to bring us back to forgotten promises. Somewhere in the past we may have made sincere promises to God, but changing circumstances and passing years have caused us to all but forget we ever made them. In fact, so much may have changed that we may have lost hope that it would still be possible for us to keep those promises. But in today's study of the life of Jacob we learn that God doesn't forget old promises, neither the ones we make to Him nor the ones He makes to us. And we discover how important it is for us to keep those old promises while it is still possible to do so. By breaking promises to his brother (Ge 33:14) and God (Ge 28:20-22), Jacob ended up in a place that brought terrible suffering upon himself, his family and the community (Ge 34): his children's morals were corrupted; his daughter was raped; he fell into such spiritual passivity that his sons led the family during the crisis, committing mass murder. Fortunately, when things got bad enough, Jacob turned to God and when he did God instructed him to fulfill the forgotten promises he had made 30 years before.

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