September 15, 2013;

So I'm reading Genesis its great, a few things to note Jacob was shrewd and he really had it going on, although to be honest I'm not sure how peaceful life would be with two wives and concubines.  And since the two wives were sisters and one couldn't get pregnant, she threw her concubine at her husband so she could have a child a little competitiveness and jealousy between them?  I can't imagine being someone's concubine and then being told go sleep with my husband and have a child with him.  Mind you, Rachel didn't want her maid to have feelings for him, just sleep with him.  Of course Leah did the same thing, she gave him her maid to have kids with.  And not once in the scriptures do I see Jacob going "No, No, I don't want to".  Yea right.  And yet from all of this comes the twelve tribes of Israel.  Love does strange things to women, particularly to women.  It's so hard sex is so physical for men, but with women, it's all about love for the most part.  We want complete intimacy.  You know, they have termed that the "Eve complex" instead of just accepting that there should be one person for one person, if you want monogamy you obviously have the Eve complex.  Yea ok whatever. 

Think about it, Jacob had multiple wives and he started the twelve tribes of Israel, David had multiple wives and he was the man after God's own heart.  He had an affair with Bathsheba, got her pregnant, killed her husband and then their baby died as a result.  But after........God blessed him with a son from Bathsheba named Solomon, a man of peace whom God loved.  He became the richest wisest man on earth. 

What would you say this means?  I think it means that God knows us, he created us, he understands matters of the heart, he gets it.  He knows were framed from dust, he knows our deepest desires and longings, even if it means we love the wrong person at the wrong time, he knows.  So what do we do with that?  I don't know.  I know we give to Him, we tell him, we cry to him and we wait, just wait.  Sometimes we fall, but he knows.