Sermon Shorts 8-6-2023
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Life happens, we grow, we change. Over time, some of us might as well become a new person entirely. And I would argue that’s actually exactly what Jesus calls us to over a lifetime of discipleship and growth.
By the end of our lives, by our older years, with God’s help, with God’s shaping touch, we should be unrecognizable from who we started as, in the best way possible. You know, disciple of Jesus, child of God, should become our above-all identity as we grow over time.
The God of Abraham is now his too. One that he knows personally, one that he’s met, one that he has spoken to. Surely God was in this place, but I didn’t know it, Jacob says. And so it’s been a couple chapters, we skipped a couple chapters, since we last encountered Jacob at the beginning of his exile. And since then, now that we’re in chapter 32, he’s grown up quite a bit.
