In Genesis chapter 28 we trace the men of God in the lineage of Jesus coming to a new focus, “Jacob”. His is a story of a man who has a heart for the things of God but has a hard time keeping his hands off of them. Jacob will now take receipt of that which was already his by faith but he wanted to pay for it with a lie. Esau will pass from the scene until the 33 chapter with still no clue as to the things of God. Isaac won’t be mentioned again until Jacob meets up with him again some 40 years later in 35:27. Rebekah, Jacob’s co-conspirator, is not mentioned again and it is believed that she dies while Jacob is in exile. “Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice only to deceive!” Saints, the lesson we can learn from Jacob is impossibility of ever obtaining the promises of God in the energy of the flesh and when we attempt to do so the price is always greater than we could have imagined. The question we must ask ourselves is, “Why do I want to purchase what is already mine in Christ with what I can never pay for?”
