What happens when we spend all our focus on something other than God? We associate money, sex, power, knowledge and even holiness, or goodness, as idols, but we don't often associate the desire for  a spouse--the love of our life--as an idol. Tim Keller discusses Jacob and his quest for his love, and the way God blessed Leah to be the ancestral mother of Christ.

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