創世記28:10-15

28:10 雅各出了別是巴，向哈蘭走去；
28:11 到了一個地方，因為太陽落了，就在那裡住宿，便拾起那地方的一塊石頭枕在頭下，在那裡躺臥睡了，
28:12 夢見一個梯子立在地上，梯子的頭頂著天，有上帝的使者在梯子上，上去下來。
28:13 耶和華站在梯子以上（或譯：站在他旁邊），說：「我是耶和華─你祖亞伯拉罕的上帝，也是以撒的上帝；我要將你現在所躺臥之地賜給你和你的後裔。
28:14 你的後裔必像地上的塵沙那樣多，必向東西南北開展；地上萬族必因你和你的後裔得福。
28:15 我也與你同在。你無論往哪裡去，我必保佑你，領你歸回這地，總不離棄你，直到我成全了向你所應許的。」

¹⁰ Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. ¹¹ When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. ¹² He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. ¹³ There above it^[c] stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. ¹⁴ Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.^{[d] 15} I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

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    有許多人說上帝的應許不一定會成就，要看你努不努力，或是你相不相信！但是，這樣說起來好像上帝的做為是受人的限制，因為看人願不願意持守某些條件，如同上面說的！

    其實上帝的應許是必定成就，不在乎你有沒有努力、或是有沒有堅信，因為上帝有主動權，祂要施恩給誰就施恩給誰，是沒有條件的、沒有限制的！反倒是人受了恩惠之後，要想到上帝是如此的看重，我們必須活出與自己所蒙的恩相稱的生命！

    因此，是上帝的恩典改變我們、陶造我們；不是我們改變或努力來換取上帝的恩典。一切都是上帝慈愛與公義的做為，使我們的生命真正獲得改變！