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\nGenesis 29:13\u00a0 <\/span>As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things, and Laban said to him, \u201cSurely you are my bone and my flesh!\u201d And he stayed with him a month. Then Laban said to Jacob, \u201cBecause you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?\u201d Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, \u201cI will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.\u201d Laban said, \u201cIt is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.\u201d So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
During the month that Jacob spent as a guest, he was not idle. Wherever we are, it is good to employ ourselves in some useful business. Laban was desirous that Jacob should continue with him. Inferior relations must not be imposed upon; it is our duty to reward them.\u00a0(Henry)<\/p>\n
Obviously, Jacob was not sitting idly by these thirty days. He was active and this activity was recognized by Laban. We see two sides to this, Jacob was a guest but was somehow active in helping out in the daily affairs of Laban\u2019s livelihood. We do not know of discussions Jacob and Laban had during these thirty days but it was apparent Laban felt that Jacob was deserving of payment for his work and offered as such with the question, \u201cWhat should your wages be?\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Jacob offers to be like a servant to Laban\u2019s works for his daughter, Rachel in marriage.\u00a0 <\/span>Think about the character of Jacob, he is heir to Isaac, a very blessed man by God. Yet Jacob has nothing and willingly becomes a servant for Laban\u2019s daughter Rachel. Seven years seems like a long time but note, \u201cthey seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
It bears repeating that our love for Jesus ought to make our days seem few this side of eternity in our awaiting His return and our eternal home in heaven with Him. We too should be in complete servitude to God. Let us be servants with joy and gladness of heart at all times for the promise and expectant return of Jesus Christ and our eternal home with Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Love makes long and hard services short and easy; hence we read of the labour of love, Heb 6:10. If we know how to value the happiness of heaven, the sufferings of this present time will be as nothing to us. An age of work will be but as a few days to those that love God. (Henry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Genesis 29:13\u00a0 As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things, and Laban said to him, \u201cSurely you are my bone and my flesh!\u201d And he stayed … Continue reading “37.r. “They seemed to him but a few days””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8582,5602,5118,16089,16102,56,3391,15459,8,4169,1968],"class_list":["post-152273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-appearance","tag-beautiful","tag-jacob","tag-laban","tag-leah","tag-love","tag-loved","tag-rachel","tag-serve","tag-wages","tag-weak"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152360,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152273\/revisions\/152360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}