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6 So he said to them, a“Is he well?” And they said, “He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel bis coming with the sheep.”  
7 Then he said, “Look, it is still1 high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”  
8 But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”
9 Now while he was still speaking with them, aRachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.  
10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near and arolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.  
11 Then Jacob akissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.  
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was aher father’s relative and that he was Rebekah’s son. bSo she ran and told her father.  
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The point here is this: That stone was so large it took several men to move it. That is one of the reasons why they gathered all the sheep together at one time, and then they would all get together and move the rock off there, and water the sheep. Then all the shepherds would be there to put the rock back on the well. Jacob did it all by himself! He was not only a man who was very contentious, he was also a man who was possessed with unusual physical strength. People were afraid of him. What Jacob wanted, Jacob got, one way or another—struggling, being contentious, deceptive, and manipulative. He was willing to work hard and long for whatever it was that he wanted.

Excerpted from The Providence of God (Part 3)



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