Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from Genesis 31:33-42.

“So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them.  Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.  Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them.  And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.  She said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me.”  So he searched but did not find the household idols.

Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban;  and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my transgression?  What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?  Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods?  Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.  These twenty years I have been with you;  your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.  That which was torn of beasts I did not bring to you;  I bore the loss of it myself.  You required it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night.  Thus I was:  by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.  These twenty years I have been in your house;  I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.  If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed.  God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”  Genesis 31:33-42.

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Jacob trusted in the righteousness and justice of God.  “…  God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”  Verse 42.

“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before You.” Psalm 89:14.

“Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;  but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth;  for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.”  Jeremiah 9:23-24.

“now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?  I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly.  …”  Luke 18:7-8.

“For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.  And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.”  Hebrews 6:10-12.