Jacob -Gen28

Gen28
Esau and Ishmael seem to get along pretty well. They're one family. They're the hard working people.(lol)

Jacob is quite a carefree boy. The journey he started out was a bit like Moses' journey into desert.
He encountered God in the place of Bethel, which means the house of God, the gate of heaven, where angels ascending and descending,"Surely the Lord is in this place...awesome"(16-17), He is amazed at God, and aware of His promise to him, but he's not ready to give his heart to God yet. He made a vow(v20), saying "if... then the Lord will be my God."(v21)

Jacob always reminds me of the prodigal son.
When my husband had a powerful dream of heaven and hell, and was baptised in the Holy Spirit without any knowledge of the tongues(amazing experience), he was then 21 and was wild in the world, but he said to God, if by 35 I still haven't settled in the world, then I'll come to find you. Then when he was 35 his world totally collapsed and on his way to kill someone the Lord saved him and he became a Christian.

The prodigal son knows he has an inheritance, he's had encounters, but he's not ready to settle in the will of God. He wants to have a journey first before he can really settle down in the house of God.