In fact just two chapters after this incident, his precious daughter Dinah is raped by a prince of a neighbouring town. And one chapter after that his dear wife Rachel dies in childbirth. And you all know that. So many of you carry scars and wounds from dark moments in life. You know that Christians still get sick, still get unemployed, still suffer tensions in family relationships which need much work.
Christians still die, sometimes in horrible ways.
Christians are NOT immune from the sufferings of this broken and hurting world. But Christians are not alone. We are not like little bottles bobbing aimlessly on a giant and stormy sea, never really sure where we will wash up, or if for that matter we will end up anywhere. Perhaps we will sink instead. Christians are not alone.