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Genesis chapter 31 verses 19 and 20

Labin had gone to shear his sheep and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

And Jacob tricked Labin, the Arabian, by not telling him that he intended to flee.

Now the picture here is Jacob along with his now very prosperous family leaving Laben. Laben had in many ways been unjust, unfair,

had deceived Jacob for years and so God comes to Jacob and says it's time for you to go and yet

the way in which Jacob goes shows the the Jacob we've seen in different parts of Genesis,

Jacob the deceiver, as he tricks Laban,

doesn't tell him what he's intending to do, sneaks away. And so we see

Jacob doing what God has told him to do, fleeing injustice in many ways and yet he's doing it

sinfully. This is where I just I read this and I think about our lives how we must be careful not to

respond to evil around us with more evil in us.

Like, Jacob is surrounded by injustice, and yet he works deception uses deceit and trickery to get out of that injustice.

Like if we're not careful we can easily fall into the trap of responding to sin around us with

sin in our own lives.

We've got to be careful. This is not what God has called us to do. So yes, God had called

Jacob to leave Laban, but God was not calling Jacob to sin in the way he did that.

So God help us, we pray.

We are so prone.

God, we're so prone to respond to sin around us with sin in us like when anger

rises up in someone around us like we're prone to respond in anger. When someone hurts us, we're prone to respond with hurt toward them in return.

God, we don't like sin around us yet we so easily resort to sin in our own lives even in response to sin around us.

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