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Prevailing Through God

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 18, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 7.

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Prevailing Through God

WHEN Jacob sought by himself and his mother to work out God's plans for him, it meant years of exile and a vast amount of trouble. But when he came to God, as he did on that night by the river Jabbok, and left it all with Him, how quickly all difficulties passed! (See Genesis 32.) He then truly prevailed over his brother Esau; for God touched the heart of the man who had been seeking revenge for years. And when Jacob—now Israel—met the changed brother the next morning, he saw Esau's face as it were the face of God. Instead of the malignity and revenge of a demon clouding it, the divine light of kindness and forgiveness shone therefrom. How much better to leave our troubles with God!