"I'm not sure we can overemphasize separation's role in Abraham's story... Make no mistake. God tests our willingness to follow Him in obedience even if no one will or can go with us. We won't embrace with both hands what God has for us if we hold our old lives in a death grip.
Never forget that time by itself does nothing to heal.
Ecclesiastes 8:1 says "wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance." You will never have a beauty secret with more visible results than the study of God's Word.
Let His Word evoke your beauty daily.
(on Jacob being tricked into marrying Leah before Rachel) For where is visible beauty in the dark? Jacob... does not know one wife from the other except superficially.
Leah and Rachel shared more than a husband in common. They shared complete desperation (a theme in Genesis) and a certainty that getting something they lacked would complete them and make them happy. That's why we can relate.
You rarely get to keep something you have to manipulate to get!!
None of us will practice purity of living and thinking accidentally. The odds are far too powerfully against us to get away with anything less than a deliberate pursuit of godliness.
Feeling forgotten by someone often feels worse than being scorned. At least the scorner knows we're alive! Feeling forgotten can force a bruising blow to one of our most innate human needs: feeling significant. Noticed. Alive. Feeling forgotten makes us feel invisible.
Who do you feel dependent upon for a good, solid future? ...Nothing and no one critical to your God-planned future can fail to come through once God says it's time.
How often the enemy tries to distract us by tempting us to fight with the very people we were meant to fight for!
If we're convinced God is sovereign, good, and purposeful, why would He allow or even ordain a season that has no value or contribution to our futures?"
~Beth Moore, The Patriarchs
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