Family Talk

Recently I was reading in the Old Testament about a patriarch named Jacob whose name, not surprisingly, meant “deceiver”; Jacob was an “if-then” kind of guy. In Genesis 28:20 Jacob makes a conditional vow saying “IF God does certain things for me THEN the Lord will be my God” I was a little surprised to see God didn’t smack him in the back of the head. That’s what my Father would have done if I’d …