DAILY DEVOTION: Wrestling with God | Jacob 3

Family secret, favouritism and compromise are all in this little pot. Are they in your family? Are you on the receiving end or the giving end? How much do you fight to stop it? Questions, questions and more questions. Water more than flour.

Esau had gone into marriage alliances with the people of the land. His parents would have known that this act would have disqualified him from being the one to carry through the programme given to Abraham by God. Actually Rebekah had known it from pregnancy. Did she keep that info from her husband? Isaac now calls Esau to give him the blessing which Rebekah believes should go to Jacob. She cooks up a plot that involves cooking up a pot. Jacob is called into the already boiling situation to become the main course. He wrestled with his mother in an attempt to escape wrestling with his almost blind father. Now don’t feel sorry for this "child" who was being forced to do mommy's evil works. Esau, we read, was 40, so his twin is only seconds younger, not decades. In spite of his fears and objections, Jacob obeyed his mother.

At what time should we pull out of a "good deal" and trust God for a real deal. How many times do we know the right but go ahead with the convenient wrong, even telling God that, it was the other person who really did it, I was just caught in the vortex. If that didn’t work for Adam, it will not work for Jacob or for us. Jacob was slammed to the ground again. Score: Rebekah 1, Jacob 0.

Pastor Gary Williams is head of the Cedar Grove Baptist (Independent) Church, located at Cedar Grove Estate, Portmore, St Catherine, and also a certified counsellor. Send feedback to kgdaddie@yahoo.com or editorial@oldharbournews.com.