Please read Genesis 27.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/gen/27/1/s_27001
Meditate on verse 38.
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my
father?
Bless me, even me also, O my father.”
So Esau lifted his voice and wept.
This is a
chapter about blessings. The word is used 23 times in Genesis 27. Blessings
were given; they were stolen; they were begged for.
After Jacob
stole Esau’s blessing, Esau cried and begged for his father, Isaac, to give him
some sort of blessing. Hebrews 12:15-17 gives you more insight into what
happened in Genesis 27. God had the writer of Hebrews describe Esau as immoral
and godless because he sold his birthright for a single meal. (Remember the
“red stuff” in Genesis 25?) The birthright was tied to the blessing. Esau was
rejected from receiving the blessing because he did not have the birthright.
After selling his birthright he did not repent. He cried because he did not
receive a blessing. He had no tears of repentance; he was upset there would be
no blessing in his life. He was not upset about the sin in his life that
resulted in him having no blessing.
Analyze your
life. Are you crying and begging God to bless you? Have you spent any time
crying and begging God to forgive your sins? Esau’s refusal to repent made him
immoral and godless; learn from his life and make sure you do not come short of
the grace of God.
Pray Genesis
27:28 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as you come to God in
brokenness and repentance as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD,
let _______ and me repent and turn to You.
When we
do, please give us the dew of heaven,
the
fatness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and new wine.
In Your
name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~Dr. Ron and Marsha
Harvell
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