Those who seek the Lord will EVENTUALLY come out on top. (Paraphrase of a quote I read recently)
Genesis 35:23-26 lists Jacob’s wives and the sons born to each one of them, twelve in all. These sons, except for Benjamin, were all born to Jacob in Paddan Aram, not in Canaan.
36 This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).
2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah (also known as Judith) daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite— 3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36, a long chapter setting out the descendants of Esau. The first statement notes that, ‘Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan’. (The rabbis teach that both Adah and Judith were adulterous and idolatrous) Everything else follows from that short line! He chose wives, ‘who were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebecca’. Genesis 26:35 Sometimes we are tempted as people to think that if we just put more effort into something, or throw more resources at it that WE CAN FIX IT. Unfortunately it’s not always the case, certainly not with large numbers of offspring. The answer doesn’t always lie in trying harder, but in giving it over to God for His solution. Selah, pause and consider.
God told Abraham that He would bless Isaac and Ishmael, both sons would live in the blessings of God, though Isaac alone was the miracle child. We’re told that God had also blessed Esau, as well as Jacob.
6 Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.7 Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock. Genesis 36
Esau, like his brother Jacob was fruitful and prospered, but there is no record of God in Esau’s life. Large families and wealth can be a major distraction, NO TIME FOR US TO THINK ABOUT GOD, TOO BUSY BUILDING OUR OWN INHERITANCE.
22 The blessing of the Lord brings wealth,
and He adds no sorrow to it. Proverbs 10
When God blesses someone, then they really are blessed.
Jacob and Esau, twin brothers, may have appeared very similar to the casual onlooker, but they were really very different. Jacob had the Favour of God on his whole life, but Esau was a ‘type of the carnal man’. There was nothing of God in his life, though God had blessed him greatly. At the end of the time here, what a shame to realise that all our lives and work were for nothing and future generations may only perpetuate this way of life.
Truly we need to keep God front and centre of our time on this earth.
Immanuel, Stay Strong, God is with us.
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38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6
THE LORD IS NO ONE’S DEBTOR, HALLELUJAH.