Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled, God is There, was written by Tim Gustafson.

Aubrey bought a fleece-lined coat for her aging father, but he died before he could wear it.

So she tucked a note of encouragement with a $20 bill into the pocket and donated the jacket

to charity.

Ninety miles away, unable to endure his family's dysfunction any longer, 19-year-old Kelly

left his house without grabbing a coat.

He knew of only one place to turn, the home of his grandmother who prayed for him.

Hours later, he stepped off a bus and into his grandma's arms.

Shielding him from the winter wind, she said,

We've got to get you a coat.

At the mission store, Kelly tried on a coat he liked.

Slipping his hands into the pockets, he found an envelope with a $20 bill and Aubrey's note. In Genesis 27, Jacob fled his dysfunctional family in fear for his life. When he stopped

for the night, God revealed himself to Jacob

in a dream. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, God told him. Jacob vowed,

if God will give me food to eat and clothes to wear, then the Lord will be my God.

Jacob made a rudimentary altar and named the spot God's house.

Kelly takes Aubrey's note and that $20 wherever he goes.

Each serves as a reminder that no matter where we run, God is there.

Thank you. where we run, God is there. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Genesis chapter 28, verses 10 through 15, and verses 20 through 22.

Jacob left Bershiba and set out for Heron.

When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set.

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