Proclamation:
“Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing
his father had given him. He said to
himself, ‘The days of mourning for my father are near, then I will kill my
brother Jacob.’” Genesis 27:41 (NIV)
Explanation:
These are the words of God which were written by Moses under
the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.
Abraham’s wife Sarah died at the age of one hundred twenty-seven, (Genesis
23:1) and she was buried in a cave overlooking a field in Canaan .
(Genesis 23:19) Abraham sent his senior
servant to his home country to find a wife for his son Isaac. (Genesis
24:1-4) When he got there, the servant
prayed and then he found Rebekah. (Genesis 24:12-16) It was in her arms that Isaac found comfort
after his mother’s death. (Genesis 24:67)
In the mean time, Abraham remarried and had five more sons. (Genesis
25:1-4) He lived to be one hundred
seventy-five years old before he died. (Genesis 25:7-8) Later on when Isaac was sixty years old, he
and Rebekah had paternal twin sons, Esau and Jacob. (Genesis 25:26) The problem was that Isaac loved Esau and
Rebekah loved Jacob. (Genesis 25:27-28) When
the boys grew up and Isaac had gotten old and his eyes were weak, Jacob, with
the help of his mother, tricked Isaac into giving him the blessing that he had
planned to give his oldest son, Esau, and he held a grudge against Jacob and
planned to kill him. (Genesis 27:1-45)
Application:
We are blessed to have children. (Deuteronomy 33:24) We are to train them in the way that they
should go. (Proverbs 22:6) We are to
nurture them and bring them up in the fear and admonition of The Lord God, but
we are not to provoke our children to anger. (Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians
3:21) By showing more love and favor to
one child more than the others, parents cause children to resent their siblings
and that resentment can lead to some very bad outcomes.
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