Take a Closer Look for Teens
Uncommon & Unexpected Insights That Are Real, Relevant & Ready to Change Your Life
No Double StandardsWhen morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?" Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one."
- Genesis 29:25-26 NIV
Jacob was used to getting his own way. He was used to doing whatever it took to get it. Before he was even born, when his mother was told she was carrying twins, God said the older son would serve the younger. In those days, in that part of the world, age meant rank and rank meant everything, so this was a weird prophecy. But it came true. Jacob's name in Hebrew even means "deceiver." Jacob once cheated his older brother Esau out of the majority of his inheritance by bribing him with a bowl of soup. He once dressed in Esau's clothes and wrapped himself in animal skins in order to trick his old, blind father into giving him the blessing that belonged to his older b ... read full excerpt from: Take a Closer Look for Teens: Uncommon & Unexpected Insights That Are Real, Relevant & Ready to Change Your Life ebook
