Genesis 29:18

New International Version

Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”

For Meditation

Love makes everything easy. Nothing is a problem or hindrance to a person in love. They will do anything to win their beloved under any circumstance. 

When a man is in love, the price of a gift does not matter. He will travel any distance for love. He sees resistance as a bluff and confronts it with joy and hope. Opposition from family becomes the needed determination to conquer. No language, status, offense, insult, or time can stop the love train.

Where there is love, desire is high. There is enthusiasm, zeal, and energy to fire its engine.

Never try to stop a person in love. You’ll only elect yourself as the premier enemy of the lover.

Just revisit your love story—your journey of love with your spouse. And for those who just started a relationship, I am sure you know what you are experiencing. But check with me the love story of Jacob for a moment.

The young man was tired and weary from a long and eventful journey, running away from a vengeful brother. There was a lot on his mind, and love might not have been one of them. However, the meeting with a beautiful Rachel at the well in the open country changed everything for him (Genesis 29:1-12). 

Rachel had a lovely figure. She was so beautiful that when Laban, her father, asked Jacob to call his wages for working for him, Jacob just blurted out seven years of work for Rachel in marriage (18). Jacob called the price, folks – seven years! What love can do!

Despite involvement in the midnight deception, Laban dare ask Jacob to work extra years for the hand of Rachel; however, seven years seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her (20). 

Did you get it? Seven more years for love, but they seemed like a few days to Jacob. I am sure you did worse, but that is alright. You paid a premium price for your sweetheart, and that is godly. 

Remember the ultimate price God paid for our souls because of His love for us? 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:10).

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? (Romans 8:35).

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (38-39).

So, are you in love with Christ? What is the condition or limit of your love? How resilient is it if you are truly in love with Him? If not, what can you prayerfully do about it?