What we empower gains power over us and what we refuse to honor becomes nothing at all.(part 1)

It's interesting. Yakov and Raquel leave Lavven's house in a hurry. After 22 years of putting up with Lavven's deceit, the name Lavan white, sort of deceitful, Yakov realizes it's time to leave. There are actually two reasons Yakov realizes it's time to leave. One, which is clear in the verses in the is that Levven doesn't look at him the same way anymore. He's jealous. He's worried. Whatever those issues are. And second, because Yakov goes down to the house of Levan, dreaming about angels and ladders, and now if you look carefully in the verses, he's dreaming about sheep. It's time to come home. So Yakov leaves in a hurry, gets his wife's ascent, and Rael just before leaving runs to get something. What does she take? She takes her father's trfim, some form of idolatry related to divination, fortuneelling, whatever they may be. And clearly, it's rather strange that Rael Sadik takes these. But more interesting, when Lovean finally shows up a few days later hunting for his trfim, Rael realizes she's going to get caught as a thief. So where does she hide them? She puts them under the cushion of the camel and sits on it. And when Leven comes into the tent, he's looking for them. He somehow understands that Rael has them, but he can't find them. And when he tells Rael to get up or implies he should get up, she says, "It's that time of the month. I can't get up." This is Rael's great plan. First of all, why does she take these idols? Why does the wife of Jacobu need idols? Second of all, if you're going to hide them and you've got three days to think about it and you know loan's going to show up, you can't find a better place to hide them. You can't throw them in a ditch somewhere. You have to put them under the cushion in the it's so strange. So some of the suggest talks about this in that what's really going on here is idolatry, astrology, these things have power because we give them power because we assume that they're important. If you sit on them, if you recognize that in a world run by God, they're meaningless, then they lose their meaning and they lose their power. How many different things in this world subscribe to that philosophy? How often do things become important because we give them importance?