Quiet Time today--Gen33

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Genesis 33Jacob Meets Esau

 ¹ Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. ² He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. ³ He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.  ⁴ But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept. ⁵ Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.
   Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

Parable of the man and diamond-carving

This story really got to me. It’s about the need to spend time with the Bible, the treasure trove of heavenly secrets, the law of laws and most important story of the world, the word. Being able to spend more time with the Bible can only mean you get in tune with the truth more and more, so when you hear of something that doesn’t sound like the truth, you will know to avoid it. As told by my friend during a Bible class.

There was a man who wanted to learn to carve diamonds and create 25-carat-looking pieces. He came to this old man who was a guru at diamond polishing and carving. The guru’s only task to him was to make him hold a piece of diamond in his hand for a few months.

Quiet Time today--Gen32

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Genesis 32Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau

 ^{1 [a]}Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. ² When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.^{[b]  3} Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. ⁴ He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now. ⁵ I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’”
 ⁶ When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

Quiet Time today--Gen31

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Genesis 31Jacob Flees From Laban

 ¹ Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.” ² And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been.  ³ Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
 ⁴ So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.

Quiet Time today--Gen29

Vs 25: Laban was wrong to have done that to Jacob, giving him Leah instead of Rachel to marry just because it was their custom for the firstborn to marry first. Laban should have explained the terms of the wages and the work first before offering to him only sth, in this case someone, that he didn’t count as proper salary for his work. He didn’t want Leah. And what do you usually do with stuff or people you don’t like?

Guess the streak of deception runs in the family, as previously Jacob was deceiving his brother too.

APPLICATION: I was looking into being an entrepreneur, another far-off dream though, and being deceptive in your work and payment is not an honest way to do business. Legally you’re gonna’ get a lot of problems your way. Anw even in the office, I too have to look out that I don’t be deceived by others who keep hidden certain conditions of the job which I find out only afterwards. Eg. I said after internship I would stay on at my PR position as part-timer, because I was given the impression that the part-time person does as much as the intern.

Getting paid only 2 dollars an hour more than intern, the boss expects me to work full-time hours still. And also I only just knew that the job may include more admin stuff to do. So much for fair exchange. Either way, I can hope to do God's work while here, and do it cheerfully.

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Genesis 29Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram

 ¹ Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. ² There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. ³ When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

 ⁴ Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?”

Quiet Time Today--Gen28

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Genesis 28

 ¹ So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman. ² Go at once to Paddan Aram,^[a] to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. ³ May God Almighty^[b] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. ⁴ May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” ⁵ Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Quiet Time today--Gen27

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Genesis 27
Jacob Gets Issac's Blessings

 ¹ When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”
   “Here I am,” he answered.
 ² Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death. ³ Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. ⁴ Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”