Genesis 27:5-25

How often I’ve read the Bible with the wrong mindset, believing God is like me, that He has my standards of right and wrong, and I make judgments based on those wrong assertions.  It would be wise for me to read Isaiah 55:8,9 before reading or studying the Bible, it states the following; “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

I’ve often sat in an adult Bible study and heard someone articulate how he or she does not agree with the Scripture that is being studied.  It is no different than saying God missed that one, if only He would have been wise enough, to have ask me for my thoughts.  If your not careful, Genesis 27 will lead you to the wrong mindset, unless you agree before hand that Creator God’s ways and thoughts are higher than your thoughts and His ways are higher that your ways.  A wise person never forgets who is the Creator, and who is the created.

It is easy to see Jacob as a schemer, a liar and deceiver, but that is not how God saw the twin of Esau.  Henry M. Morris gives this insight; “There is never a single instance in the Bible, of criticism of Jacob (except on the lips of Esau and Laban, both of whom are unworthy witnesses).  Every time God spoke to Jacob, it was in a message of blessing and promise, never one of rebuke or chastisement.”  (The Genesis Record page 428)

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice