June 8 - The Blessing Deceitfully Procured

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“Then he said, ‘Are you really my son Esau?’ He said, ‘I am.'”

There are certainly some circumstances in this affair which may help a little to excuse Jacob and his mother — but cannot justify them.

The case may be thus stated. It cannot be denied, on the one hand, that both Jacob and his mother were just for having due esteem of his father’s solemn blessing. Their endeavors to attain it must have proceeded from a full persuasion of the truth of God’s covenant with Abraham. Together with Isaac’s ratification of the blessing when done, may be drawn some arguments to lessen their crime.

On the other hand, it must be confessed that the means used to attain their ends were highly criminal. Rebecca was wrong in her advice to her son, and he was wrong in following it. For although God, before Jacob was born, designed him to inherit the blessing — yet he ought to have waited until the Divine wisdom opened the way. He ought not to have procured the blessing by an irregular act of his own. Besides, both of them, by this act, presumed to limit the power of God by thinking that fraud was needful to accomplish God’s purpose.

Oh, that we may be taught from this example to find rest implicitly in His hands and to walk in holy simplicity and sincerity before Him.

Devotion by Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky (1690—1774)

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