Verse of the day: Israel served a woman and kept her cattle (Osseas 12. 12).
Jacob, while fighting with Laban, described his hard work: “Twenty years I was with you, your sheep and your goats never lost their young, and I did not eat the sheep of your flock. I didn’t even show them what the beasts broke; I suffered the damage; You demanded it from my hand, stolen day and night. So he walked consumed by the heat of the day, by the frost at night; Has the dream escaped me? (Genesis 31: 38-40). Our Lord’s life in this world required much more work than Jacob’s. He cared for all of his sheep, until finally he said responsibly, “Haven’t I lost any of the ones you gave me?” (John 18,9). Jesus’ hair was damp with dew and the dream escaped him. The Lord Jesus was in prayer all night, fighting for his people. One night she had to pray for Pedro; in another, someone else cried out for his painful intercession. No pastor who has ever sat under the cold sky could have groaned as Jesus would have said had he decided to cry, because of the severity of his work to get his wife. It is helpful to meditate extensively on the spiritual parallelism that exists in Laban’s attitude of requiring all the sheep from Jacob’s hands. If the sheep were torn to pieces by the beasts, Jacob had to compensate Laban for them. If one of the sheep died, Jacob would be the guardian of the entire flock. Was not the work of the Lord Jesus in the name of his church the work of Someone under the obligation of a guarantor, to bring all believers safely into the hands of the One who had them? placed under your responsibility? Look at Jacob hard at work and you will see a picture of Him that we can read: “As a shepherd, will you feed your flock? (Isaiah 40,11).