The Law of Reaping or What Goes Around, Comes Around

The lives of Jacob, Isaac and Abraham teach us the truism that we reap what we sow.  I have heard it said another way.  What goes around comes around.  There is both a positive and negative connotation to this truth.  We can reap in a positive way or in a negative way.  There are many who strive to live godly and yet suffer much.  But in the end, we find that they are truly blessed.  Take the beggar Lazarus compared to the rich man in Luke 16.  The rich man failed to show compassion to Lazarus when it was in his power to do so.  After both died, the situations were reversed with the exception that the ability to show mercy and grace to the rich man was not possible.  Our text today continues to see the result of family dynamics at work in the life of Jacob and his wives, Leah and Rachel who were sisters.  Rachel was favored over Leah by Jacob and yet we find great honor and blessing fall upon Leah from God’s hand. It would be through Leah that the promise of the Savior would be fulfilled.

Verses of the Week:

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.   _{Ezekiel 37:26}