DAY 24 MARCH 2022 – WAR AGAINST THE “LABANS” OF LIFE!
I know a young man, though no longer young because he has sojourned on planet earth for many years. When he was growing up, he wanted to start his primary school education early. But because he was not blessed with height, he was told he couldn’t start school because his right hand could not touch his left ear, a policy that was a prerequisite at that time before anyone could begin school. His attempt to start school was shifted forward until he could meet up with the condition there. When he finished primary and then secondary school, he became a perpetual candidate of University Matriculation Exams.
He got into university at a time when most of his mates had rounded up or were rounding up their university education. His joy of being a young graduate went unfulfilled. Though he became a university graduate eventually, he wrote the matriculation exams many times and in addition, he lost many years to incessant industrial action that bedeviled the university system in his country then. When he wanted to get married, his wedding date had to be shifted because of infighting in his in-laws family.
Today’s scriptural reading is another pointer to such forces at work. Jacob was serving his uncle Laban faithfully so as to marry Rachel, the love of his life. Little did he know that uncle Laban had a different plan. The time he thought he would rejoice for marrying his heartthrob was shifted by another 7 years. Hear his words, “And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me” (Gen.3: 6-7).
There are many “Labans” in this world that can shift the goalpost in someone’s life. Beware of them. For 10 good times, the wages of Jacob were changed. My prayer for you today is that any power causing delay or delays, or shifting your day of breakthrough and rejoicing forward will come to an end in Jesus name.
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