Sing Into Your Storm

Leah bore Jacob yet a third son, named Levi, again holding on to fading hope that:

“Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” (Genesis 29:33)

But he did not… It was at this stage in Leah’s life that she came to a place of surrendering her heart (and her fate) unto the Lord and became willing to live her life in thankfulness for the portion of the Lord that God had given her. Her place of surrender to the Lord cultivated a deeper place of intimate praise - by her yielding to God. She bore Jacob a fourth son after this by the name of Judah. Instead of attempting to broker yet another son to Jacob in an attempt to win his heart, she had named this child as reflective of a testimony of her heart being reconciled to the Lord, Leah was transitioning in life from a place of knowing deep rejection into a lifestyle of praise! Scripture is very clear how much the Lord chose to bless her through her son Judah’s lineage. Judah name means “Praise Yahweh” or “May Yahweh be praised ”. Judah held a very sp ecial place in the heart of God, but like King David, his life was not without adversity. Though Judah was instrumental in pleading with his brothers not to kill Joseph, he eventually left his brothers to spend a season at Adullam (even as David did). But there he did the unthinkable… He married a Canaanite woman and everything went downhill from there. He had several sons, the first two, Er and Onan were so wicked and displeasing to God, that the Lord Himself killed both of them! “ Now I will praise the L ORD .” (Genesis 29:35)

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