The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, and majestic in his radiant splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Genesis 27:35,
"Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."
Through an amazing episode of deception, Jacob stole Esau's blessing from his father Isaac. Their mother, Rebekah, was in on it and actually devised the plan of the deceiption. The chapter lays out in detail how they pulled it off.
While ethical considerations abound in the account, it happened exactly as the Lord intended. We read in Malachi 1:2-3, "'I have loved you [the nation of Israel],' says the Lord. 'But you ask, "How have you loved us?" 'Was not Esau Jacob's brother?' declares the Lord. 'Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.'"
In spite of the deception, in spite of the dishonesty and trickery played on Isaac, the event turned out exactly as the Lord desired. And, he used Isaac's own wife to pull it off!
I am reminded of Proverbs 21:30, "There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord." No matter Isaac's wishes or desires, the Lord accomplished what he wanted. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my [the Lord's] ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:9-11.
Through an amazing episode of deception, Jacob stole Esau's blessing from his father Isaac. Their mother, Rebekah, was in on it and actually devised the plan of the deceiption. The chapter lays out in detail how they pulled it off.
While ethical considerations abound in the account, it happened exactly as the Lord intended. We read in Malachi 1:2-3, "'I have loved you [the nation of Israel],' says the Lord. 'But you ask, "How have you loved us?" 'Was not Esau Jacob's brother?' declares the Lord. 'Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.'"
In spite of the deception, in spite of the dishonesty and trickery played on Isaac, the event turned out exactly as the Lord desired. And, he used Isaac's own wife to pull it off!
I am reminded of Proverbs 21:30, "There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord." No matter Isaac's wishes or desires, the Lord accomplished what he wanted. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my [the Lord's] ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:9-11.
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