June 30, 2008 9:14 AM
rik wrote:
sex, trickery, deciete, uneven scales! My goodness, these are the men of God! Maybe I do not understand the times I guess it was accepted to have maidservents become wives and so on, but it still seem kind of soap opraish. Was it wrong of Jacob to manipulate the flock like he did? Seem like uneven scales to me. We all know what proverbs says about that. It is a miricle that God would send His Son knowing this is the heart of man! Reply to this
June 30, 2008 11:15 AM
Rich wrote:
Rik - I am proud of you. You were the lone warrior this weekend. I apologize for letting you hang out by yourself. I let myself get distracted by other things this weekend and did not blog.
Jacob was one busy guy!!! I agree with Rik. This sounds like soap TV. Also, the trick of Jacob with the strong versus weak sheep. Jacob was clever in what he did, but he was also deceitful. Obviously, Jacob planned this for awhile before he made his deal with Laban. He knew when he told Laban that he would take the spotted sheep that these were the strongest sheep. He was cunning, but he was not truthful.
I agree with Rik again that it is amazing that God blessed all of this. But then, I started to think about myself. I am in many ways just as "bad" as Jacob is described here. I wonder what would be written about me if my life was on display and in the Bible. I have lustful, deceitful, treacherous thoughts every day. I hide many of my actions in the "dark." What if all of this was exposed. I believe the lesson here is not to think of how bad these guys were, but instead to see how much we are just like them. If I was Jacob, I would have done much the same. If my wife gave me to her maidservant and said sleep with her, would I say no? If I knew that I would get a big raise at work by making my accounts look better than my competitors, how far would I go? The truth is, I am not sure! I can see that I might do just as Jacob has done here. God blesses us all, even though we are sinful. That is amazing. God is not out to destroy us but to bring us to the realization that he loves us unconditionally and that is what should motivate us to do good things.
I did not use this as motivation this weekend to make sure that I spent time with God as he deserved. Ughhh!!! Reply to this
sex, trickery, deciete, uneven scales! My goodness, these are the men of God! Maybe I do not understand the times I guess it was accepted to have maidservents become wives and so on, but it still seem kind of soap opraish. Was it wrong of Jacob to manipulate the flock like he did? Seem like uneven scales to me. We all know what proverbs says about that. It is a miricle that God would send His Son knowing this is the heart of man!
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Rik - I am proud of you. You were the lone warrior this weekend. I apologize for letting you hang out by yourself. I let myself get distracted by other things this weekend and did not blog.
Jacob was one busy guy!!! I agree with Rik. This sounds like soap TV. Also, the trick of Jacob with the strong versus weak sheep. Jacob was clever in what he did, but he was also deceitful. Obviously, Jacob planned this for awhile before he made his deal with Laban. He knew when he told Laban that he would take the spotted sheep that these were the strongest sheep. He was cunning, but he was not truthful.
I agree with Rik again that it is amazing that God blessed all of this. But then, I started to think about myself. I am in many ways just as "bad" as Jacob is described here. I wonder what would be written about me if my life was on display and in the Bible. I have lustful, deceitful, treacherous thoughts every day. I hide many of my actions in the "dark." What if all of this was exposed. I believe the lesson here is not to think of how bad these guys were, but instead to see how much we are just like them. If I was Jacob, I would have done much the same. If my wife gave me to her maidservant and said sleep with her, would I say no? If I knew that I would get a big raise at work by making my accounts look better than my competitors, how far would I go? The truth is, I am not sure! I can see that I might do just as Jacob has done here. God blesses us all, even though we are sinful. That is amazing. God is not out to destroy us but to bring us to the realization that he loves us unconditionally and that is what should motivate us to do good things.
I did not use this as motivation this weekend to make sure that I spent time with God as he deserved. Ughhh!!!
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