“Listen Carefully And
Do
What I Tell You”
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father
say to your brother Esau, ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to
eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I
die.’ Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: Go out to the flock
and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your
father, just the way he likes it. Then take it to your father to eat, so that
he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man
while I have smooth skin. What if my father touches me? I would appear to be
tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”
His mother said to
him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for
me.”
So he went and got
them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the
way his father liked it. Then Rebekah took the best
clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her
younger son Jacob. She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck
with the goatskins. Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the
bread she had made.
He went to his father
and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
Jacob said to his
father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up
and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Isaac asked his son,
“How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The LORD your God gave me success,”
he replied.
Then Isaac said to
Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my
son Esau or not.”
Jacob went close to
his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob,
but the hands are the hands of Esau.” He did not recognize him, for his hands
were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him.
Genesis
27:6-23
God included so many
stories in the Bible of people who were deceitful, unreliable, and angry. And
so are we. We are all of those things. But all of that changes when we trust
God completely to guide and direct our lives. He gives us strength, where there
was weakness before. We all have God given abilities if we let God use those
abilities in us.
It’s good
to learn of our weaknesses if it drives us to lean on God’s strengths.
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