Genesis chapter 30

The competition between Leah and Rachel, when Jacob becomes a pawn, a trophy between the two of them. I know it was the tradition on those days to have your husband sleep with your servant and then any child would be deemed to be yours, but I really wouldn't want my husband sleeping with any other woman, no matter who she was. Yet here are Leah and Rachel, trading Jacob between them and using their servants to get more children.

It is a case of not having the patience to wait on God, to trust Him to provide. Easier said than done, I now, as I sit here criticising. There are many times when I take matters into my own hands, to do what I think God wants me to without waiting to hear from him. Sometimes, it is better to just sit and wait on God, to spend time quietly in prayer rather than rush into doing something that may well be the right thing, but it might not necessarily be at the right time. I struggle to do this, as I know I have a habit of wanting to be busy, to be doing something, and I have trouble just sitting doing nothing. So this is a real lesson to me to have patience, to wait on God and not to rush in and do what I think is best. After all, God knows the big picture, He can see yesterday, today and tomorrow and He knows the right time and the right action to take.