I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Genesis 26-28.

When Jacob, pretending to be Esau, brought the dish to Isaac, Isaac asked him how he was able to find it so quickly.  Jacob replied that “The Lord, your God, gave me success.”  Jacob does not at this point consider the Lord to be his own God, merely the God of his father.  Later, when he had a vision of a stairway to Heaven, he vows that if God brings him safely back to his father’s house, then the Lord would be his God.  This is a process that each of us must go through at some point.  We must transition from the Lord being someone else’s God to being our God.  If we are lucky, that someone else is one or both of our parents.  However, if the Lord was our parents’ God, sometimes we think that He just automatically becomes ours, but we must each choose Him, just as Jacob chose Him.