HOW DO YOU MEASURE YOUR WORTH?
Angie Smith
Today’ s feature film stars Jacob and his roller coaster of a love life. Jacob fell in love with a beautiful relative named Rachel. He was so in love with her that he agreed to work for her father for seven years in order to win her hand in marriage. It passed like the blink of an eye for him because all he could dream of was the day she would be his wife.
It was finally the wedding day. Imagine his surprise when he realized Rachel’ s dad had pulled the old switcheroo and he was actually marrying her notably less attractive older sister, Leah. Since it was tradition for the older sister to marry first, Laban saw his chance and took it. Ironically, Jacob didn’ t realize this until the next day, which begs a few questions that I’ m not going to try to answer right now.
Well, now we have a predicament: seven years down the drain and a wife he didn’ t want. What shall we do? I know! Make another deal with Uncle Laban. Jacob agreed to work another seven years to marry Rachel, but he didn’ t have
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