Back to the Beginning: Genesis 31:1-30
Imagine Laban’s reaction when he returns from shearing his flock and finds them gone! Not one to let things go, he assembles a posse and sets out in hot pursuit. With seven days of travel, he has plenty of time to stew over his anger for Jacob, but that is interrupted by a stern warning directly from God.
Why did you slip away secretly?
Why did you deceive me?
And why didn’t you say you wanted to leave…? I would have thrown you a going away party! (WHAT?!)
Oh, the irony of a deceiver being so put out when they are the one being deceived!
But his focus really comes down to one accusatory question: Why have you stolen my gods?
This is a man who has heard the voice of God first hand and seen the prosperity of Jacob through the Lord, yet his main concern is the idols. Worthless, time consuming, dead-end idols. How does He not understand? How does He not see, I mean really see, what he is missing?
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