“For twenty years I have been with you, caring for your flocks.”
Jacob spent twenty years working for his uncle Laban, who changed his wages ten times! God used a deceitful relative to teach Jacob a lesson; Jacob himself had deceived his father Isaac in order to receive the blessing belonging to the firstborn.
And yet the plan of God – this “fearsome God of Isaac” – is fulfilled, even through men and women whose hearts are deceitful.
