“God Withheld the Fruit…”

March 7, 2019

“God Withheld the Fruit…”

Blessings folk!

We are looking at what Scripture says about “fruit”.

We have seen the fruit in the garden of Eden.
That did not end well…though it will eventually!

Now, let us jump into a family fight…

Gen 30:1-6

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister;
and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”

Then Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said,
“Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

She said, “Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees,
that through her I too may have children.”

So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

Then Rachel said,
“God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.”
Therefore she named him Dan.

Rachel had no children.
Leah, her sister, did.
Jacob was the husband of both.
Well, that could not have been comfortable.
We see that it was not.

Rachel literally cried out to her husband “give me children, or else I die”.

The physical problem was not with Jacob the husband.
He had proved that by children with Leah

Rachel knew that she was the “problem”.
She was frustrated.
She was mad.

Jacob turned angry.
His anger burned against Rachel, the wife he loved.
He questioned, “am I in the place of God?”
He declared it was God that had withheld the fruit of the womb.

Whoa!

The Word shows several women in the lineage of Jesus that were barren…lacked fruit.
Until the Lord moved.

Rachel offered a solution…a family solution used before by Abrah/Sarai.
Use the hand maiden to provide a child.

Jacob agreed.

Dan was born.

Too often we do not see the fruit of God and we develop strategies to bring it forth.
We should trust the Lord.
We should seek the Lord.
We should rest in the Lord.
We should await upon the Lord.

Fruit - offspring/seed of a tree/plant.
Fruit - offspring/seed of an animal/human.

Seek the fruit of the Lord…

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