God is Love

"Who among the gods is like you, O Lord? Who is like you-- majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? You stretched out your right hand and the earth swallowed them. "In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling..." Exodus 15:11-13

"...but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments." Deuteronomy 5:10
"...Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands." Deuteronomy 7:9

Today I'm going to explain Genesis 29, but I will condense the whole passage, of course. I read the passage three different times and got the same meaning out of it each time, but before I explain the meaning, I'll describe the passage itself.
In Genesis 29, Jacob meets with shepherds and a shepherdess named Rachel. He finds out that they are from Haran, where his uncle, Laban, lives. It just happens that Rachel is Labans son. Jacob begins working for his uncle, who promises to give Jacob his youngest daughter, Rachel, in marriage. After seven years of hard work Laban tricks Jacob and instead of giving him his youngest daughter in marriage, he gives his oldest named Leah. Jacob becomes angry and Laban explains that it is tradition to give the first daughter before the others in marriage, so he then offers Jacob Rachel. After several years, God saw how unloved Leah was, and saw that Jacob did not want her. God looked into Rachel's womb and saw she was barren so He blessed Leah with a son. When she gave birth she said, "now my husband will love me." Twice more did she give birth, and twice more did she say the same thing, yet Jacob still did not love her like he loved Rachel. Finally, Leah gave birth to a fourth child. "Now I will praise the Lord," she said...and stopped having children.

I had a hard time deciding whether my belief about the passage was correct or not, so I asked my Gammy. I asked her what its importance was, and why on Earth did Jacob have two wives!?
My Gammy responded that the Bible can only be interpreted scripture by scripture. And that she doesn't think that one chapter or verse can be taken out of context and interpreted alone.
She also told me that when God created Adam and Eve he told them to be fruitful and multiply; there were not taboos about plural marriages. But when Christ came He ordained marriage as one man and one woman...basically the New Testament's laws replaced the Old Testament's rules.
But I decided the first, second, and third time reading, that this passage represents God's love. Even when you feel alone, unloved, or forgotten, God listens, He hears, He reacts, and He surrounds you with His love! Even as a sinner, if you believe in God, if you submerse yourself in His being, He will love you, just as He loved Rachel and blessed her. Maybe she didn't realize that God was with her, but He was watching over her with love and devotion.