“Secret Flight”

Genesis 31: 27, 28: “Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre; and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.” Maybe the flocks were Jacob’s, and the daughters, but shouldn’t Laban have gotten a chance to say goodbye to his grandchildren? Was there a need for this secret flight? Actually, God had the situation in hand the whole time (v. 24), but Jacob’s fear betrayed a lack of trust in God.