PrayerBits for Thursday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Thursday

Scripture lesson: Genesis 29:15-28 Jacob the Grabber gets taken

Time to reflect: How many people today would work 14 years to get their spouse? This is certainly outside of our Culture! But out of this nasty trick by Laban comes the 12 tribes of Israel. In the end it was a good thing...

 

Moving through the day: Think about something in your life where an bad thing had a good outcome.

Scripture:

Laban said to him, "Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."

  Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful. Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel."

  Laban said, "It's better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me." So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

  Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to lie with her."

 So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and Jacob lay with her. And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter as her maidservant.

  When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?"

  Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. Finish this daughter's bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work."

  And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.