Undergirding the ten commandments was the core framework for living under God’s leading. Can you guess what that framework is? It is simply this – love.

The Passover lamb was the promise of hope for a sin infested world. It was precious gift wrapped in blood as a reminder of the high cost of our right to discipleship.

In reading the story of Joseph hidden away in prison, we may miss the full extent of the emotional and mental cost to him during that time.

That same God who visited Jacob, still visits us in our moments of self-doubt and discouragement saying: “Don’t worry my child. I am not abandoning you! In fact, I have big dreams for you. Stick with me. I am going to take you places.”