Behold, I am with you and will keep you Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15Genesis 28:15

And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” Genesis 29:25Genesis 29:25

When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. Genesis 29:31Genesis 29:31

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” Genesis 30:1-2Genesis 30:1-2

““I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself new motives. After the first few steps in the new motives. After the first few steps in the Christian life we realize that everything which Christian life we realize that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God.done only by God.

--C.S. Lewis, --C.S. Lewis, Mere ChristianityMere Christianity

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.shall take a wife for my son from there. Genesis 24:7Genesis 24:7

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot “The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.speak to you bad or good. Genesis 24:50Genesis 24:50

For I do not understand my own actions. For I For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.hate. Romans 7:15Romans 7:15

Behold, I am with you and will keep you Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15Genesis 28:15

And behold, I am with you always, to the end And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”of the age.” Matthew 28:20Matthew 28:20

the Lord alone guided him (Jacob), no foreign the Lord alone guided him (Jacob), no foreign god was with him.god was with him. Deuteronomy 32:12Deuteronomy 32:12

No temptation has overtaken you that is not No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:131 Corinthians 10:13