- Genesis 27 Daily DEVO – Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. Genesis 27:15-16 – For Jacob to find blessing from his father he had to dress up as someone he wasn’t. Thankfully you and I don’t have to do that with our Heavenly Father. We don’t have to put on the costume of perfection to be able to come before God. We don’t have to pretend to be something we’re not. Unlike Jacob’s dad, God sees through all our costumes. What He asks is for us to just come as we are to Him. No longer pretending to have it all together, but coming to Him in our messed up state. Thanks to Jesus that’s a door that’s open for us to walk through. So today if you feel like God only wants you when you have the costume of perfection on, let go of that please. God wants you to come to Him as you are. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 507
- So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” Genesis27:18 – Just because they say they are right, are there at the right time, they feel right, and they even smell right doesn’t mean they are right. Here Isaac runs through so many tests to see if the person coming to him was the right one yet even through all that blesses the wrong son. Today that person in your story may feel right, today that job may come at the right time, today that move may say it’s right….yet it still may not be right for you. How do you know what’s right then? Lay it before God and seek His wisdom. He knows what’s truly right for you and what will help you use your life for His glory. Be willing to make it your habit when in decision making to bring it before God who can see past all deception and knows what’s best for you. Yes, there will still be times where you just have to step out in faith on decisions, yet when those decisions have been brought before God the faith you’re stepping out in isn’t in yourself but in a God who can handle our weight. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1831
But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” Genesis 27:35 – Everyone in this story behaved sinfully and everyone in this story lost. Isaac, knowing God’s will to carry out His blessing through Jacob, secretly tries to give the blessing to his favorite son. Rebekah behaved deceitfully my manipulating Isaac and Jacob. Esau, knowing what the Lord had declared, sees a way for him to get worldly blessings, runs for it, and discards the Lord’s plan. Finally, Jacob lies and acts deceitfully to claim the blessing from his father, when if he just trusted in the Lord, he would know all it would be his anyways. Yet, while each of the four acted sinfully, do we see what still took place through it all? God’s plan is still completed. The very person that God foretold would receive His blessing did. Let us remember that God will still move and accomplish His work despite the sin that may be taking place all around us. Others may behave sinfully, the enemy may move, and we even may fail by choosing sin, but even with all that God is able to still bring about His purposes and plan. He is not defeated by our sin nor the enemy’s moves. What God longs for then is for us to trust Him and seek to follow His word rather than our fleshly desires in life. For while the end result of Jacob receiving God’s blessing would still have taken place, can you imagine the difference in our story if each member of the family trusted each other and trusted the Lord in His plan? Know God is going to fulfill His purposes and plans. Be then a follower that is a blessing to His work rather than one He must work in spite of. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2833
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