_Rachel envied her sister._ RACHEL’S IMPATIENCE I. IT WAS UNGODLY. 1. She was the victim of unholy passions. Envy and jealousy. 2. She took a despairing view of life. 3. She failed rightly to recognize the true Author of all good things. II. IT LED TO THE ADOPTION OF WRONG EXPEDIENTS. Showing... [ Continue Reading ]
_With great wrestlings have I wrestled_ GREAT WRESTLINGS Thus speaks Rachel; and this woman’s experience, multiplied as it is a thousand-fold in hearts that never told their struggles, shows us that life is not so calm as it seems. Beneath many a placid stream there are deep and dangerous under-c... [ Continue Reading ]
_And God remembered Rachel_ GOD’S FAVOUR TOWARDS RACHEL I. IT WAS LONG DELAYER. Discipline. II. IT WAS GRANTED TO HER AFTER SOME SOLEMN LESSONS HAD BEEN LEARNED. 1. Dependence. 2. Patience. 3. Faith and hope. III. IT AWAKENED GRATITUDE. 1. Grateful recognition of God’s dealings (verse23). 2... [ Continue Reading ]
_Send me away that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country_ THE LIGHTS OF HOME There is in Switzerland a hill known as the Heimweh Fluh, or Home-sick Mount. It is so called because it is usually the last spot visited by the traveller when leaving that part of the country at a time when his... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have learned by experience_ MORAL AND RELIGIOUS LESSONS GAINED BY EXPERIENCE The words are Laban’s, and, taken in their connection, they intimate that even an utterly wordly man, such as he was, may be forced to acknowledge the moral providence of God, whereby He takes especial and peculiar car... [ Continue Reading ]
_Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it_ JACOB’S NEW CONTRACT OF SERVICE I. IT WAS ENTERED UPON IN OPPOSITION TO HIS BETTER FEELINGS AND CONVICTIONS. II. IT WAS MARKED BY WORLDLY PRUDENCE. 1. The prudence which calculates. 2. The prudence which takes advantage of superior knowledge. (_T. H.Le... [ Continue Reading ]