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, stolen, and begged for.
After Jacob stole Esau’s blessing, Esau tearfully begged his father, Isaac, to give him some sort of blessing. Hebrews 12:15-17 gives added 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. Recall 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 was upset there would be no blessing in his life, but he had no tears of repentance for the sin in his life that resulted in him losing the blessing.
Do you cry and beg God to bless you? Do you cry and beg 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 (Hebrews 12:15).
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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