My current project is me. I wanna look the best l've ever looked, make the most money I've ever made and be the most spiritually tapped in l ever have. no distractions just results!
Jacob got buried next to the wife he never wanted.
Not Rachel. Not the love of his life he cried over and worked fourteen years to get.
Leah. The one he got tricked into marrying in the dark and spent twenty years looking past.
Now watch what God does with her.
Jacob worked seven years for Rachel and it felt like a few days, he loved her that much. Then his father in law swapped the brides in the dark. Worst best man in history. He woke up married to Leah and worked seven more years for the girl he actually wanted.
Here is the line everybody scrolls past.
"And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb."
Hated. In her own house. Second place at her own table, across from a man whose eyes were always parked down the road.
Heaven did not fix it by handing Jacob some feelings. God walked to the exact spot where Leah was rejected and built there. Out of the hated wife came Judah. Out of Judah came the line that ends in a manger. God does His best work in the dirt where you got overlooked.
Rachel, the one everybody wanted, got buried on the side of the road. Leah got laid in the covenant ground with Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah. The woman he did not choose is the one God ran His whole rescue through. Heaven does not hold recounts.
If you have spent years being tolerated instead of treasured, that might be the exact soil God builds a legacy in. And if you are the man always reaching for Rachel while you step over the Leah at home, repent, and go love what God actually gave you.
God is really my friend. My guy, for real. I go to bed wondering how I’ll make it through tomorrow, and somehow He lets me rest, wakes me to the beauty of a new day, and carries me through it too. Life feels worth living again. He really hears me.
Nobody talks about the fact that Proverbs 31 describes a woman of strength.
Not a woman of perfection.
She works hard.
She is generous.
She is wise.
She fears God.
Not once does it mention her body.
Not once does it mention her appearance as her defining quality.
Build that. Pursue that. Be that.
one of my favorite parts about life is being so aligned with people/your environment that they randomly confirm things you’ve only been talking to yourself or God about lol