
This visitation of God made a deep impression on Laban. He refers to it  afterward as restraining him from injuring his runaway son-in-law. Jacob, too,  was struck by it. It is very wonderful to find the Holy God casting the mantle  of His protection around this crafty and deceitful soul. No doubt it was due to  His covenant relationship with the family and race, of which Jacob was a most  unworthy member (Genesis 30:13, Genesis 30:42). But if God thus interposed for  Jacob, will He not much more interpose for those who desire to be His obedient  children?
God will lay an arrest on your persecutors. - Israel was  rebuked because the exiles in Babylon thought they would perish before a man  that could die, and the son of man who was as grass, and forgot their Maker, the  Lord of heaven and earth. All around you the fire may rage; but you shall walk  amid it unscathed, if only you trust. No weapon formed against you shall  prosper.
God will lay an arrest on trial. - His finger is always on our  pulse; and the moment the pain becomes more than we can bear, He will stay it.  His eye is ever upon His own.
God will lay an arrest on the power of the  evil one. - We shall not be tempted beyond that we are able to bear. There is  always a thus far and no farther. "The Lord maketh a way in the sea, and a path  in the mighty waters." The Only-begotten of the Father keeps the sheep whom His  Father has entrusted to Him. Not one of them can be devoured by the lion of  hell. If only we believed this, we should be calmer, happier, even though  circumstanced as Jacob. No need to altercate with Laban, but to look beyond him  to the "Fear of Isaac."