So Easy To Conform, So Difficult To Be Transformed
BRD REFLECTION 2026
Genesis 29:14-30 and Psalm 90:11-17 (NIV)
(Sonny Chuah from Worship and Music Ministry)
READ:
Genesis 29:14-30 (NIV)
OBSERVE:
- How time flies when we are consumed by our dreams! Jacob willingly worked seven years for Rachel’s hand in marriage.
- And how darkness can hide the truth! Jacob did not realise that it was Leah, and not Rachel, whom he slept with on the wedding night.
- And how local customs could foil the best of intentions!
- Jacob ended up with both sisters as his wives. While this may have seemed like a blessing, Jacob would have to manage the conflict between his two wives.
APPLY:
- If you are married, you will recognise the adjustments you have to make to accommodate each other’s idiosyncrasies.
The Bible teaches us about faithfulness and the love you want to share with your dearly beloved.
God’s plan in Genesis 2:24 is for a man to leave his family and cleave to his wife—not wives.
Jesus, in Matthew 19:4–6, reminds us that the two become one flesh.
- Neither does the Bible teach us to conform to the standards or norms of our society.
DO:
In the days of old, one goal of polygamy was to maintain family or tribal survival and growth. Jacob’s polygamy was accepted as the social norm. But we know that, for Jacob, this resulted in competition among his two wives and two concubines.
In our lives, we need to evaluate whether we are simply conforming to social norms instead of listening to God’s direction and living for Him.
PRAY:
Father God, I confess that I am often caught up in values that society accepts as normal, and I fail to honour You by being different from the world.
My lifestyle is discoloured by my conformity to worldly norms, so much so that Jesus might be ashamed and say, “I don’t know you.”
So, I pray that You will constantly remind me that I am in the world but not of the world; that I am to be a light shining out of darkness and a radical disciple of Jesus Christ, in whose name I pray. Amen.
