Bible Reading: Genesis 27
Bible Verse: Genesis 27:36
Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
Good morning ladies and gentlemen! How are you all doing? I hope you are good? Today, I thank God for the lives of each and every single one of you! God richly bless you for taking the time to read The Word. We are continuing our journey through Genesis 27, by exploring “the consequences for our actions.” I pray that this message blesses you; as it has blessed me.
From the verse we are looking at, we see that Esau was complaining about Jacob stealing everything he hasd/has from him. Well, he was basically living the consequences of his decision to give his birthright away. When he made the decision to give up his birthright; he did not factor the consequences he had to live with.
Many Christians act this way. They live a care-free life; always blaming someone else but themselves for all that they go through. They forget that most of the times, they are just living the consequences of a decision they made years before.
In this world, there is nothing like no-consequential living. Everything has an effect. The effects are the consequences; these consequences can be good or bad. Good consequences usually result from good decisions and bad consequences from bad decisions. There are times where Christ intervenes in your case and takes away most of the bad consequences from your life. He never takes away all of the consequences. He makes sure that you go through some of the consequences so that it serves as a lesson to you and to the people around you.
Esau was living a no-consequential life. He sold his birthright to his brother for food. When you think about it, it sounds very immature and shocking. A lot of us do the same. We make very unwise decisions, forgetting that there would be consequences in the future.
Was it wrong for Jacob to have been blessed by his father, Isaac? No. Why? Well, this is because Jacob had become the firstborn after Esau sold his birthright to him. A father’s blessings is to the firstborn child. This transaction between the two brothers, made Jacob the rightful recipient of Isaac’s blessing.
For a long time, I used to think that Jacob could have gracefully declined his mother proposition to take his father’s blessing. However, I have learnt that it was actually his righ