Today we are reading Genesis 31. In this chapter we read about the conflict between Jacob and Laban. “Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two. These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.””
Genesis 31:36-42 ESV Have you ever worked for someone like Laban? How did you handle it? When faced with adversity of any kind, we must seek God’s direction. We can easily mishandle a situation and make it worse. I have learned with arrogant and manipulative people that humility wins the day. Why? Because God calls us to be humble and because God opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble. Pastor Tim
