FAITH CAPSULE: Life is a journey that can be unplanned.

Genesis 28

Life is a journey.
An unplanned journey can be exceedingly painful but often comes to a gainful end.
For Joseph, the errand to last for hours lasted over thirteen years. 
Jacob (Israel) called on his beloved son Joseph, “And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” So he said to him, “Here I am.” Then he said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.” (Genesis 37:13-14) 
The errand took Joseph away at the age of seventeen. 
What a journey! 
What a life! 
A very long and unplanned journey can be very challenging. 
Are you on any unplanned journey? 
The truth is, it can be exceedingly painful, but it often comes to a gainful end. 
With Joseph, an unplanned journey took him to the center of his divine assignment in life. 
By the time he came back to his father, he was a man in a position of power. 
Joseph experienced a change of story that delivered his whole family from the famine of his time, and they could not suffer a time of the famine. 
Behind every glory is a story of the glory of God.
After Jacob stole the blessings of Esau, he took the position to experience the wrath of his brother by running for his life. 
A time of running can lead to repositioning a man for a glorious ending. The running of Jacob positioned him in an unplanned journey. 
The mother of Jacob gave him to flee to her brother Laban in Haran. Rebekah said to Jacob to go, “And stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away,” (Genesis 27:44) 
Jacob entered the journey with no way of turning back.
It was a journey that took him to the center of divine assignment. 
Jacob engaged in the journey of his escape.
Genesis 28:10-12 records, “Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. 11 So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. 12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven, and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.”  
The arrival of Jacob identified as a “certain” was the place for his divine encounter, a place of the visitation of God with assurance.
Arrival at a “certain place” is assurance to be the center of divine assignment for life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God to keep you and not miss the arrival at the divine assignment.