The story of Rachel and Jacob is a very interesting one. It has all the makings of a good plot. We have the young man, beautiful lady, sweat, tears, humiliation, love and hate. No fairytale.
I’ll give you a brief summary:
In Genesis 29 Jacob meets up with his friends at ‘the spot’ and everyone’s there; his friend from school, this guy he met at the market and this beautiful girl. Her name is Rachel. Long story short, he tries to impress her by doing something that showed off his strength and his masculinity. And he succeeds because she likes it, goes home and tells her daddy (Laban) about this boy and soon after Jacob moves in with them. While working with Laban, Jacob falls in love with Rachel and asks him if he can work and get paid with Rachel’s hand in marriage. Laban agrees. So Jacob sweats, he shed tears, he works hard for SEVEN years so he can get his dream girl. After the seven years was finished, he found out that he had to marry the eldest daughter first; her name is Leah, because that was the law. However, he still wanted Rachel and his Uncle allowed him to marry Rachel if he would work an additional seven years. Would you do that? Well, Jacob did. The story goes on further in Genesis and talks about how Leah was jealous of the love Jacob gave Rachel and thought she would get back at her by having 6 kids with him and because Rachel wasn’t able to have kids, she was also jealous and felt humiliated by her medical issue. Later on, when she stopped stressing so much, she gave birth to a son. (Read the story, it’s very interesting.)
Jacob ended up working for Rachel a total of fourteen years.
We live in such a fast paced society. We want our meals right away, our money right away, shipping needs to be overnight, the food needs to be micro-waved and we need to take off 30lbs in 5 days. It’s what we have been accustomed to getting in this society with everyone and everything moving so fast. With that said, it becomes hard to understand the concept of waiting, praying without ceasing, or holding steadfast.
Many times we settle. Where did it get you? God wants us to live out our dreams and be happy! And settling is the equivalent to regret, not happiness. Knowing who we are, what our purpose is, and learning how to live out our talents to Praise God are things that will help keep us from settling. They are things that will help us with waiting on God. God created you special and doesn’t want you to settle for second best. After all, He created you a masterpiece.
The last point taken from this message is simple: You are also worth it.
Worth the wait.
Worth the effort.
Worth the truth.
Worth the risk.
You are worth it.
Have you read this chapter? What did you find most interesting about the story of Rachel and Jacob?
LU
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