The Ugly Duckling.

We all know the proverbial ugly ducking that was despised by his brothers because he wasn't good looking. But when he left home, the story ends with him turning into a swan and marrying a beautiful swan and them living happily ever after. So we all want to end up being swans, right? We want our imperfections to disappear over night! 

Most of us drown in the imperfections we have carried since childhood. Too fat, too thin, too tall, bad hair, big nose, you know the list is endless! we all want to be like the run way models with perfect bodies. Have you watched Stepford Wives? Its a very old movie and when I saw those women I was like my God how can one be this perfect? Perfect clothes, perfect cook, perfect dancer..till I got to the end of the movie and realized they were mere robots! goodness me! I almost died of envy. Well by the way some imperfections are brought about by circumstances in our lives and you feel like you are not good enough to be number one. Some situations like not being able to have children and yes I have met single mothers who by virtue of having children/child think they can never find love again and always settle for anyone! No, God has a key to every lock that he has made.

  So Yesterday I was reading the story of Leah and Rachel in the bible, Genesis 29-30. Rachel came out as a picture perfect model, tall, slender, with dimples,  flawless skin and a graceful walk. Jacob  just lay his eyes on her and fell in love and immediately wanted to make her his wife and didn't even care about the cost! Rachel was clearly the apple of her father's eyes too because Laban said to Jacob that he would rather give her to him than any other man. Leah on the other hand was portrayed as ugly, was sightly and had weak eyes (In my imagination that's a squint?)Genesis 29: ¹⁷ Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.


Jacob had to be tricked to be with her! As in she wasn't good enough to get a suitor and someone had to be tricked into marrying her. I can imagine the look on Jacob's face when he finally awoke after the wedding and found Leah in Rachel's place! He even agreed to work seven more years just to be with his dream wife Rachel. Eventually Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah and was always in his heart and he favoured her. Leah comes out as a stumbling block to their love story. You know though she was the first wife she always felt like the other woman.

Even when you feel rejected just know that God will eventually make you great. He closed Rachel's womb and opened that of Leah and Leah recognized her children as gifts from God even the way she named them. ³¹ When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, saw behind Leah’s tender eyes and discerned her heart. Leah may not have been “lovely in form,” but she was exactly what God was looking for through whom to establish the house of David and the lineage of Christ.

We have all lived through rejection in one way or another, not being good enough for someone and always being second best. We all wish that our story would end with us turning into swans and marrying that swan and living happily ever after. See Leah lives well and Rachel is eventually so bitter about not being able to give children and when you follow her story she ends up destroyed. Her story is not a happy ending after all but Leah's is.

The Lord through this story has shown us that we are all perfect in his eyes. It does not matter what the world has created perfectness to be. You, honey, are the apple of God's eyes and out there, there is a Swan for each of us, yes even the Leah's of this world and eventually you will meet him. So don't settle for just any Random that says one simple sweet word.