Please read Genesis 29.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/gen/29/1/s_29001
Meditate on this phrase from verse 32.
The LORD has seen my affliction.
Jacob’s
mother, Rebekah, sent him to stay with her brother for a few days until Esau’s
anger over the loss of blessing subsided. Before Jacob left home, his father,
Isaac, tasked him to find a wife from among his cousins (Genesis 27:43-45;
28:1-2).
Days turned
into years because Uncle Laban said Jacob could marry one of his daughters
after he worked seven years for her. Jacob agreed and worked to marry Laban’s
beautiful younger daughter, Rachel. On the honeymoon night, Laban substituted
his older, not so pretty daughter, Leah. It must have been a lively wedding
celebration because Jacob was unaware he had spent the night with Leah instead
of Rachel until the next morning. When questioned by Jacob, Laban replied that
it wasn’t the custom for the youngest to marry first, and Jacob could work an
additional seven years and be married to both Leah and Rachel. Jacob agreed.
Notice Leah
in Genesis 29:31-35. She was unloved by Jacob. She knew it, and most
importantly, God knew it. He saw her affliction, opened her womb, and let her
have four sons, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. Judah is the tribe from whom
Christ would come. God let unloved Leah be the great, great, great ...
grandmother of the Messiah. You will read tomorrow in Genesis 30 that Leah had
two additional sons, Issachar and Zebulun and a daughter, Dinah. God gave
unloved, unwanted Leah seven children because God loved her; He wanted her to
be the mother of half of the tribes of Israel and the one from whom His Son
would come.
No matter
your circumstances, pain, or affliction, God sees you; He hears what is
happening, and He notices you. Cry out to Him, and watch for what He is doing
in your life.
Pray Genesis
29:31-33 and 35 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful,
prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD,
You see what is happening to _______ and
me.
You see
our affliction; You have heard about it.
Because
You know, I will praise You.
For the
sake of Your name, Jesus~”
The Watchman on the Wall - Dr.
Ron and Marsha Harvell
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