THE LOVE THAT SHOULD BE SWEETER THAN WINE

InSpired

THE LOVE THAT SHOULD BE  BETTER THAN WINE

Leah was excited, elated and could not keep her enthusiasm to herself

Wow, her father Laban had used his fatherly love to give to her the desire of her heart

A Lover from a distant shore!

Probably she wanted Jacob also  the moment she set her gaze on him.

But he had eyes only for her sister

And spend almost all his time with her because Rachel was a shepherdess just like Jacob was a shepherd

Rachel understood the bleating of the goat just as Jacob had the staff  that leads the sheep

Love blossoms belween Jacob and Rachel as he led her where he feeds his sheep; to the resting place of his flock away from the scorching Sun

Jacob was the more endeared to Rachel because she was the woman who speaks his love language

"You are the most beautiful woman of all; he tells her;  as they feed the young goats near the shepherds tents

"My darling, you are like a mare

Among Laban's stallion 

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments and your neck with jewels

Jacob sang to his beloved Rachel

While the sheep dance to the beautiful songs of a lover

Maybe If l become a shepherdess

 And care for my father's sheep like Rachel, my husband  will love me more, 

Leah, would have thought over and over again

But we guess all her hopes were ruined; when he turned away from her after just one week of drinking from her fountain

She had thought he would always gaze and quench his thirst from her well

But just seven days and he was ready to run to another fountain- 

The fountain of her sister  bitter utterances

 Jacob did not leave Leah with her dignity intact

He left with a WORD

"Why did you deceived me, he cried bitterly to his father- in -law, Laban

And we can only guess he become the unwilling Lover for six days

Love making became a duty, an obligation

he had to carry out but not with  the pleasure the Maker intend it to be

Because the Creator said in the Marraige manuel 

"And a man shall leave his parents and cleave to his wife and they shall become ONE'

This is a  love meant to break the umbilical cord of the mother from her son

Is a love that entangles itself beyond the realms of the physical flesh and finds its abode in the Soul

It's must be a love that wants to care; caressing in broad day light

A love that overlooks the peering stare  of the Stars above

And the watching eyes of Abimelech through the window below

A heart fire that made Isaac play in broad day light with Rebecca , his sweet lover

"And it came to pass when he had been there some time, that Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked out of the window, and saw, and behold, ISAAC WAS DALLYING with REBECCA HIS WIFE." ( Darby )

He saw ISAAC HOLDING HIS WIFE REBEKAH TENDERLY

 (NCV)

Abimlech , king of the Philistines looked out of his window and saw ISAAC FONDLING HIS WIFE REBEKAH 

(The Message)

He saw ISAAC PLAYING WITH REBEKAH his WIFE. ( BBE )

behold, ISAAC was SPORTING WITH REBEKAH HIS wife. (KJV)

Indeed, Jacob must have sported with Rachel telling her sweet words that kept her soul wanting for him in eager anticipation

Yet he slept with Leah for seven days to fulfill the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the wedding week

Jacob' loving gaze must have told Rachel

'You are the One l want"

But His body poured his seed into Leah; a wife who had to buy his attention for one night with the mandrakes of her son

True, Laban deceived Jacob 

But Leah spend day and night hoping for a love that was unrequited 

Hoping her beloved would play with  her.

Hoping, yearning, and craving she did until she gave up all hope

Then she got to this point where she turned to The God of her husband

And exclaimed ' Judah, l will praise Thy LORD! 

A.L. Hephzibah