Let's not be like Esau...

Pastor preached and it gave Ethy and I the opportunity to talk about the difference between Jacob and Esau, more than the fact that he was the second brother. Which Ethy was delighted to be like him in being the second. But to be like him in "begging a blessing!" was the issue that we were talking about. Jacob knew each of his many sons and knew that God didn't bless him because he was any better than his brother. He had met God and to the end of his days he spoke to his children about the God with whom he had wrestled a blessing. He had the foresight to pray for the Egyptian grandsons and pray God's richest blessings on them and prayed for them not to be left behind in the rapture of the people of God out of Egypt and God was merciful to remember them, inspite of themselves also. Christ was the reason for their salvation and Christ was the reason for Jacob's salvation. There will come a Saviour out of your loins Jacob without whom you couldn't have access to God. He learned this through the wrestling and through the limp which he endured throughout his life. Ethy and I had some laughter at looking at that supplanter and how he was still "begging a blessing," in his aged life. Keep begging a blessing Ethy. Don't take it for granted that you were born into a God-fearing family.