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Today's Blog Title: "Jacob Meets Rachel"
Today's Blog Scripture: Genesis 29:1-14
Today's Key Verse: Genesis 29:14 "And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him a month."
I will be breaking Chapter 29 down into 3 parts. The first part will be "Jacob Meets Rachel. Part 2 "Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel" and part 3 "The Children of Jacob".
The people of the east were not Canaanites, so Jacob would be obeying the command of his father not to take a wife for himself from the Canaanites. Jacob looked and saw shepards gathered at a well. As with the case with Abraham's servant, when he met Rebekah at the well, so would Jacob meet Rachel at a well, and perhaps it was the same well. Because God allowed a number of events in the Bible to occur at wells, they would become a symbol of God's blessing and care. Even in John 4:1-30, we read about Jesus and the Samaritan woman meeting at a well.
Jacob starts talking to the shepards at the well, and asks them if they knew Laban, and they replied that they did. The discussion then goes into general questions about his health, and well being, and just as they were answering, Rachel appears at the well. The name Rachel is a term of endearment meaning, "Ewe lamb". Rachel was a cousin of Jacob.
Rachel was at the well now with her sheep, and Jacob walks over and rolls the stone away from the mouth of the well, and waters her sheep and then kisses Rachel, and tells her who he is. Doubtless Jacob had heard the story of his mothers encounter with the servant of Abraham, many times. He knew that their meeting was from God.
Jacob tells Rachel that he was Rebekah's son, and she runs off to tell her father. Her father then runs back to the well, embraces him and takes him back to his house. In the closing of part 1, we see in verse 14 that Laban now tells Jacob, "You are my bone and my flesh" and Jacob stayed with him for month.
Closing Question and Comment: "Are you allowing God, to guide you, in the direction that he wants you to go?" We saw here in part 1, that Jacob had in his journey, came upon shepards laying by a well with there flocks. There was a stone on the mouth of the well. Jacob then starts making small talk with the shepards, and ask them if they knew Laban. When they said that they did, he started asking about his health, and the shepards said that he was well. Just as they had said that, they said, "hey look there is Rachel, his daughter." Jacob falls in love with Rachel, just as his father Isaac, had when he meet Rebekah for the first time. Jacob then removes the rock from the mouth of the well, and waters Rachel's sheep, perhaps the same way that Rebekah had done for the servant of Abraham. This thought must have gone through his mind, as he watered the sheep, and he knew that this meeting was from God. He then gives her a kiss, and tells her who he is. She then leaves her sheep with him, and goes and tells her father, who comes to invite him to his house. Wow!!! God in his wisdom was in control of the situation then, just as He is in total control today.
What a mighty God we serve!
What a mighty God we serve!
Angels bow before Him,
Heaven and earth adore Him,
What a mighty God we serve
Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace, Serve the Lord with Gladness and Love God More Today.
Yours In Christ,
Cindi
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