Genesis 34:9-10 (NKJV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves. So you shall dwell with us\u2026Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions for yourselves in it.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t be bought cheap. Don\u2019t let your grievance be pacified by cheap means. Don\u2019t enter into a selfish, sinful arrangement for personal gain. This will bring about a corruption of your lineage and cut you off from the covenant. Don\u2019t let Satan deceive you & sidetrack you with the seduction of material gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacob\u2019s family was offered an open cheque; all they had to do was drop the terms of the eternal & historic covenant with God to solve & satisfy an immediate and pressing issue. This is seduction at its height: forget your eternal inheritance, enjoy the present. Satan is always inviting us to compromise our identity to satisfy a temporary longing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Resist every seduction to be bought cheap. You are a royal priesthood and holy nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI will not be bought or sold. I belong to my King and You alone, Lord, have the right to my life. Temporary and fleeting pleasures have no power over me; only You Lord. Satan, take all your gifts away because they cannot hold my heart. I belong to the King and by Your covenant Oh Lord, I stand. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Genesis 34:9-10 (NKJV). \u201cAnd make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves. So you shall dwell with us\u2026Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions for yourselves in it.\u201d\u2018 Don\u2019t be bought cheap. Don\u2019t let your grievance be pacified by cheap means. Don\u2019t enter into a selfish, sinful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-genesis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Genesis.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}