{"id":741,"date":"2009-12-01T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","slug":"jacobs-struggle-with-possessions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Jacob’s Struggle With Possessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Genesis chapter 29 and Jacob’s struggle with his possessions<\/em>. After his deception\u00a0for the birth right, he is sent by his mother to his uncle Laban’s\u00a0house to find a wife. He seems to have his\u00a0own plan and expectations as to how things will turn out. We make plans, but God works with a purpose. In verses 1-17 of chapter 29 we find the labor of deception. Jacob is very froward in going after Rachel. He kisses her after only knowing her a few moments. He is attracted to her outward beauty and has no idea if she has any spiritual\u00a0inward beauty. In verses 19-20 he works seven years because he loves Rachel. I fear it is more lust than love. In verses 20-25 Jacob the tricker\u00a0is tricked by his father-in-law Laban. He gets Leah the other daughter on wedding night. I believe love would have talked some on wedding night, but lust always gets tricked because it’s in a hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Genesis chapter 29 and Jacob’s struggle with his possessions. After his deception\u00a0for the birth right, he is sent by his mother to his uncle Laban’s\u00a0house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}