Selections from Genesis 27
While Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. Now obey every order I give you, my son. Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father - the kind he loves. Then take it to your father to eat so that he may bless you before he dies."
Jacob answered, "Then I will seem to be deceiving him, and I will bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself." His mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son."
Tricking Isaac to make him honor Jacob over their older son didn't just pop into their mother's head overnight. No, she'd been watching, plotting, strategizing. Wonder what might have happened if she'd have put that much effort into her marriage?
Remember the Rebekah we met back in Genesis 24? The sweet little Hebrew girl who went out of her way to serve Abraham's messenger, drawing up enough buckets to cool off all ten of his camels? (And, boy, can they drink a lot!) Look at her now. Just goes to show you what can happen when we leave our marriages unattended, unfed, uncultivated. People who once pledged their love at the altar can become strangers living in the same house.
What are you doing to keep that from happening at your house?
