At nighttime, all you see is the problem, but at daybreak you see the purpose.

Dr. Tony Evans says the point of our problems often isn't revealed until the battle is over.

When you wrestle through the pain of your passionate pursuit of God, you then get your breakthrough and not until.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

When life feels like a daily struggle, it's easy to wonder when God will step in.

Today, we'll see why God's timing isn't always ours and how we can trust him in the meantime. Let's join Dr. Evans as he begins. One of the great stories of the

Old Testament is in the life of one of the great characters in the Old Testament, and his name is

Jacob. Jacob means trickster. He was named accurately. Ever since he came out of his

mother's womb, he was a conniva. From the early days of his birth, he knew how to run a game on folk.

The biggest game that he ran as a young man was against his own brother, his own blood.

When he duped him out of his birthright, his blessing, that should have gone to Esau, but he duped his brother,

then he duped his father to make his father think in his blindness that he was his

brother.

And he was a trickster.

In fact, on one occasion, he saw his brother said,

Daddy names you correctly,

for you have tricked me twice.

But you know, there is a way over time

that the chickens come home to roost.

When something becomes your character, what you're named for, sooner or later, it's going

catch up with you.

And you're going to have to come face to face with the error of your ways.

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