#DailyDevotion God Is Going To Get His Choice
Lent Day 16 Saturday
Read Gen 27:1–29
Gen 27:28-29 May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. (29) Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”
Reading this account and remembering all the Sunday School lessons you have probably encountered, you might think that Rebecca and Jacob were being deceitful. Well in a sense they were. They were certainly trying to deceive Isaac into giving Jacob the blessing of Isaac. Receiving a blessing was a big thing. Isaac, like his father Abraham, were prophets of the Lord. Their blessing came with it the power to come into existence. What they blessed would come to pass. Isaac seeing his time has come had to decided to bless Esau who was the oldest of the two twins and the son whom he loved.
But Isaac was acting contrary to the will of God revealed to Rebecca. It is recorded here: Gen 25:23 And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.” It was the Lord’s choice that the blessing, the covenant He made with Abraham and given to Isaac to pass on to Jacob and not Esau. It was Isaac who was acting deceitfully. Rebecca and Jacob are acting in accordance with the prophetic Word of God.
Jacob was God’s choice. God does seem at times to choose the least expected one to be the one through whom he will bring about his action and blessing. Abraham was an old man already when God called him. Jacob is the younger of the two twins. Judah isn’t the oldest son but God chooses his tribe to be the line of the messiah. David was the youngest son whom the Lord chooses to make king of Israel. And Jesus is born of the poorest descendents of David to become the savior of the world.
And what about you? 1Co 1:27-29 “But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; (28) God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, (29) so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.” We should not think the Lord chose us to have faith in Christ because we are such stellar examples of humanity. Yet that it may be by grace and not by merit we enter the kingdom of heaven, the Lord chose you to be one of his saints in glory. He chose you to receive the Holy Spirit, have faith and become a child of Abraham. How do you know he chose you? He put his name on you in baptism.
Heavenly Father, we thank and praise you for your choice that we might have faith and eternal life in your Son Jesus. Ever keep us in this faith unto life everlasting. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.