Genesis 29:1–20
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age drowning in sentimentality and starving for true romance. Our culture manufactures love stories that are a mixture of cheap feeling, sexual chemistry, and the therapeutic language of self-fulfillment. The result is a generation of young men who are passive and hesitant, and young women who are either cynical or perpetually disappointed. They have been fed a diet of cinematic fluff, and they mistake the sugar rush for actual nourishment. Into this confusion, the book of Genesis gives us the story of Jacob and Rachel. And at first glance, it appears to have all the elements of a modern romance: a long journey, a beautiful girl, love at first sight. It is a story about divine providence, masculine initiative, and the kind of love that is measured not in heart-flutters but in years of hard labor.