Jnauary 10

Daily Bible Reading: Genesis 28, 29, 30; Psalm 10, 40, 70, 100, 130; Proverbs 10

“And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.” Genesis 29:20

The rate of divorce goes up quite a bit after the New Year’s holiday is over. How ironic this takes place after Christmas, and just prior to Valentine’s Day. Could it be that the most advanced society on the globe to date has lost sight of the basics?
Children suffer at the hand negligent parents. In a neighboring city, a mother who is known to use crack cocaine, left a minor child with her two male roommates for hours. They called the biological father to come and get the child. A restraining order between the parents caused this child to go “into the system’ instead.
There is another case of a mother who left her minor child alone while going for an evening of dancing. Maintenance workers on a routine check of the apartments, found the child home alone.
Yet another heart-wrenching case of outright neglect has a couple going to the movies. As they walk past another car in the lot, they see a small child inside. They go on inside the theatre and purchase tickets. The female gets a feeling she needs to go back and check on the child. She finds the child outside the car playing. The child could have been abducted or even hit by another car. When questioned about the incident, the parents said that they forgot they had brought the child with them in the car to the movies.
These examples are not how we prove our love for our children. Jacob loved Rachel so much that he worked and served for seven years to get her. After some trickery by his father-in-law, Jacob learns he has to serve seven more years for the woman of his dreams. Jacob worked and served a total of fourteen years for Rachel. He was highly motivated by true love so much, that the years flew by.
So, how is your love bank account today? How is your spouse’s love bank account? How is your children’s love bank account? Anyone bankrupt?