This post is an edited Sunday sermon from my
notes as Pastor Rodney spoke.
Genesis 27:1-4 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could
no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”
“Here I am,” he answered. Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of
my death. Now then, get your quiver and bow—and go
out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. Prepare me
the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you
my blessing before I die.” Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to
his son Esau.
Jacob was Rebekah’s favorite
and she helped Jacob trick his Father into giving Jacob the blessing. When Esau returned and discovered that Jacob
had received the blessing, he wept and asked his Father is there was only one
blessing, and could he have a blessing also.
Isaac was very sad, and told Esau that he would indeed be blessed but he
would serve Jacob. Eventually Esau would
break the yoke off his neck.
At times we see others
blessed and question “Are there any blessings left for me?”
Esau was jealous, angry and
hated his brother violently with threats of murder. Their mother Rebekah, urged Jacob to leave
and go to her brother’s home and God will provide him with a wife and bless
you. Jacob did as she asked, and
although he had the promise of the blessings, it seemed that what goes around
comes around. He was deceived and
cheated many times by his uncle.
Jacob continued to claim the
promise even when things weren’t going so well.
He pressed in and the promise went before him.
Many years passed, and
eventually Jacob and his family returned home and the broken fellowship with
his brother was restored. They wept on
each other’s necks and declared God is good and His blessings abound.
Understand that you have the
promise of blessings, so keep the promise ever before you knowing that God is good all
the time.
