Jacob & Esau

Today I read about Jacob and Esau. When Esau came in from hunting and wanted stew but, Jacob deceived his brother asking for his birthright and Esau falls for the bait. Then when Issac is about to die he tells Esau to go find him some game and make him some tasty food. Rebbekah hears about this and she tells her son Jacob to go find the 2 best goats and bring them to her and she will make his father some tasty food. Jacob says but my brother Esau has hairy rough arms and I have smooth hairless arms, so his mom puts goat skin on his arms. Issac not knowing that he was blessing his youngest son and not his oldest son. Then once Esau found out he was really mad and wanted to kill his brother after his father died. When Rebbekah heard she told Jacob to go to Laban her brother and that she would send word for him when his brother simmered down. On his way to laban God spoke to Jacob. Jacob first saw Rachel and she was Laban's youngest daughter and she brought Jacob to her father. When Laban asked Jacob what he wanted for his wages he said I want Rachel I will work for her for 7 years. For Jacob it only seemed like a few days. When his 7 years were up Jacob said give me my wife but, the day after the wedding Jacob realized that Laban had tricked him and given him Leah. Laban explained himself saying that it wasn't there custom to marry off the younger daughter first. So Jacob had to work another 7 years for Rachel. Jacob then worked for Laban another 6 years before he went back home. Laban changed Jacob's wages 10 times in those 6 years. God blessed Jacob by making it so that every time Laban changed his wages that was the most occurrent thing that happened.

Today lesson or what I learned is that you don't need trickery to be rich and famous because God will always provide.