Poem April 13, 2020 ISSUE

Ever been afraid?

Lona Ingwerson

“Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed.”*He prayed,“Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,from the hand of Esau.”Esau surely felt he had every reason to kill him:Jacob had stolen his birthright,robbed him of his inheritance.But in Jacob’s prayer,he not only saw his brother as God’s perfect man,he saw himself transformed. And when they met?Instead of a battlean embrace,and Jacob could truly say,“I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

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