Leah Unveiled: Your Best Life Later, Discovering Identity Stronger than the Struggle

by Michelle Kelso Kafer

In the book of Genesis, we see creation, God's pursuit in covenant, displays of righteousness and faith, but also humanity's rebellion, judgment, racism, social inequality, and depravity run amuck. We see the difference in walking by faith with God and walking by worldly standards. We see holy justice and raw human injustice. In Genesis chapters 29 and 30, there is no shortage of these elements, where God chose to preserve a diary, of sorts, of a matriarch of the faith. Though history has reduced her story to only descriptive paragraphs, this twelve-week Bible study will unveil why God chose to carry her testimony for our benefit in living out the Christian life. God took her humble position and grafted her into the scarlet thread of the Gospel story. You know her as the wife to a patriarch, who was in love with her sister, and a mother to eight of the original twelve tribes of Israel. Her name is Leah. After this expository styled study, you will be astonished and captivated by her testimony of how faith wrestles to thrive in the land of the living while yielding to the hope of heaven. She is a channel by which world history has been shaped and our hope secured in Christ. You will be encouraged and convicted as you wrestle with the God who revealed Himself to her and who stands to do the same for you.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 14, 2020

Reviews

[Traci Rhoades · Rating 5 out of 5]

An in-depth look at Leah's faith journey through the naming of her children. Tons of insight and a workbook format that allows for further study and application.

[Laura Owens · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were a lot of passages that felt like the author just had an agenda to push, not actually talking about Leah and her journey but about how we are imperfect and God is perfect. I’m not saying that’s wrong — obviously it’s a tenant of our faith — but it didn’t always make sense when she went into that.

There wasn’t *a lot* that I got out of this, but I did get a few worthwhile ideas to consider.