We live in a very mobile world.

Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys of the Bible.

Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

Jacob is having the hardest time of his life.

He has tried to make a way for himself.

He's deceived his own daddy.

He has angered his brother.

Now father and mother have had to send him away from home.

He is, in some respects, the first prodigal.

He is a wanderer.

He is a traveler. He is aimless and purposeless. He's trying to figure life out. Perhaps that's you today or perhaps that's someone

that you know. May I encourage you? There's hope. If you're alive right now, if you're breathing,

the Bible says a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Jacob could testify to that. He felt like a dog. He felt like he'd hit bottom.

And he's running for his life. He thinks his own brother's going to try to kill him.

And so by divine appointment, Genesis chapter 28 and verse 11 says, and he lighted upon a certain place

and tarried there all night because the sun was

set, and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place

to sleep. I'm reminded of what the psalma says that the Lord giveth his beloved sleep. Isn't it beautiful

that even in the hard times of life and the night hours of

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