Someone recently asked a question, and I think it is a good one. What does it mean for God to be named the God of Jacob? God gives Himself a variety of names, and all of them are intentional. His names offer insight into His character, so we may learn to trust Him. What, then, does He intend to communicate by saying that He is the God of Jacob?

Creation has a way of slowing a man down long enough for him to notice what has always been true. This truth is not the loud message the world repeats—about achievement, comfort, or control—but the quieter truth written into stone, water, and sky. Scripture says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork” (Ps. 19:1). That declaration does not require interpretation. It requires only that a man step outside and pay attention.

When Moses turned aside to look at the burning bush, he was living in a period of divine silence. Scripture’s last recorded words from God were His direction to Jacob to reunite with Joseph in Egypt (Gen. 46). Two generations previously, God told Abraham how long that period of silence would be: “Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years” (Gen. 15:13).

Thousands of years ago, “in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). In the first two days of time, the Lord set Earth into motion and crafted its self-maintaining system of weather patterns. He perfectly designed and refined the rotation of the Earth and its circuit around the sun to establish regular days, nights, and seasons. In this way “the heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork” (Psalm 19:1).

God is not our enemy. When we are tempted, when evil solicits us to sin, God is not the One doing it. In James 1, the first preacher of the Jerusalem church goes into great detail to

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