THE SEED
”It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.“ Genesis 31:41 NIV
Using craftiness to acquire another person’s blessing is not being smart like the devil will convince us it is. It is pure evil! Genesis 27 recalls the story of Rebecca and Jacob using craftiness to take advantage of Isaac’s blindness to take the blessings that Isaac intended to give to Esau his eldest son. Well, this might have felt good at the time or felt like a mother helping her beloved son, but the repercussions were heavy on both of them. Even with his uncle, Jacob couldn’t escape feeling the pain of craftiness himself. His Uncle paid him back in his own coin without knowing about Jacobs’s past deed. Indeed, nature has a way to connect you with people like you. When Jacob wanted to marry, he asked for Rachel in marriage but Laban craftily gave him Leah instead, then Laban kept changing Jacob’s wages craftily and He lived his life working so hard for little except for God’s mercy. All the time he spent with his uncle was like a payback time for Jacob but he also learned to change his lifestyle. The lesson here is that if you deal with people craftily, nature will connect your path with crafty people to also deal with you.
BIBLE READINGS: Genesis 27:17-27
PRAYER: Lord Jesus, help me to be content with myself and never get anything that belongs to other people in craftiness.
IWA AREKEREKE REBEKA ATI JAKOBU
IRUGBIN NAA
“Báyìí ni ó rí fún ogún ọdún tí mo fi wà nínú ilé rẹ. Mo ṣiṣe fun o fun Odun merinla nitori omobinrin re Meji àti Odun mefa nitori agbo eran re. Iwo yi owo MI pada nilopo mewa. Jenesísì 31:41
Lilo arekereke lati gba ibukun ẹlomiran kii ṣe ọlọgbọn bi eṣu ṣe parowa fun wa pe o jẹ. O je iwa ibi nitootọ. Jenesísì orí 27 ránwa leti ìtàn Rèbékà àti Jakobù tí won fi àrékérekè láti lo àǹfààní airiran Isaaki láti gba àwọn ìbùkún tí Ísaákì fe fi fún egbon rẹ̀ àkoko. Nitootọ eleyi leje oun ti o dara nígbà naa tàbí ki o dabi pe iya ran omo re ti o nife lowọ sugbon atunbotan re ko dara. Botile je pe o wa pelú egbon iya rẹ, Jakobu ko le sa fun irora ti arekereke funrararẹ. Arakunrin naa san esan oun ti o ti se pada fun u lai mọ ise ti Jakobu ti se kọja. Lootọ, iseda ni ọna lati so o pọ pẹlu awon eniyan bii tire. Nígbà tí Jakobù fe fe Aya, ó béèrè fun Rákélì ṣùgbon Lábánì fi ẹ̀tàn fi Léà fún un, leyìn náà, Lábánì ń fi ẹ̀tàn yí owó ise Jákobù pa dà, ó sì gbé ìgbésí ayé rẹ̀ nipa ṣi sise kárakara fun ere kekere. Opelope àánú Ọlorun Lori aye re. Gbogbo akoko ti o lo pẹlu aburo baba rẹ dabi akoko esan fun Jakobu ṣugbọn o tun kọ ẹkọ lati yi igbesi aye rẹ pada. Ẹkọ yi ni pe ti o ba ba awọn eniyan ṣe pẹlu arekereke, iseda yoo so ọna rẹ pọ pẹlu awọn eniyan alarekereke lati fiya je o.
BIBELI KIKA: Jenesísì 27:17-27
ADURA: Jesu Oluwa, ṣe iranlọwọ fun mi lati ni itẹlọrun pẹlu ara mi ati pe ma se je ki n gba ohunkohun ti o jẹ ti awọn eniyan miiran nipase arekereke.