Jacob

Today, in our mini series on faith, we are going back to one of the Patriarch’s – Jacob, grandson of Abraham.   Jacob’s life reads a bit like a soap-opera plot – his life is full of family drama.  He of course tricked his brother Esau out of his birthright and inheritance, Esau was understandably incensed and threatened to kill him, Jacob’s mother helped him escape to his Uncle Laban’s house.  Now it was Jacob’s turn to be tricked – by Laban, tricked into marrying Leah, the sister of the Rachel whom he loved – waiting 14 years before he could marry her.