Genesis 7: 5 -17 (NKJV)
Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it. 6 So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Indeed I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7 ‘Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before my death.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you. 9 Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves. 10 Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death.” 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.” 13 But his mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.” 14 And he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 15 Then Rebekah took the choice clothes of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 Then she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Rebekah was what you will call a schemer. In actual fact she committed fraud. She manipulated a situation and caused her son Jacob to lie and cheat. Even when Jacob was hesitant in doing what she asked him to do because he knew it was wrong and could backfire, she still pushed till she had her way.
In today’s language, we will say she organised a scam making her a fraudster and a scammer. That might seem a little harsh but when we read the above verses of scripture that is exactly what she did.
What she did led to hatred between siblings, it led to rivalry, it led to separation. All because she preferred one child to the other. I pray none of us will ever be like Rebekah is this aspect of her character.
The lesson to learn here is to never try to play God. We must never try and manipulate situations based on our own wisdom. We must allow God to do what He wants to do in His own timing and in His own way. We must not prefer one child to the other, or show partiality.
God already destined that Jacob was going to be greater than Esau but He had His own wise plan of how that was going to happen. Rebekah did not need to step in an assist God. The same way with us, God is well capable of working things out in our lives, marriages, families and homes, without our “assistance”.
May the Lord help us to trust implicitly in Him like a little child and allow Him to do what He is capable of doing in His own time and in His own way. The key is patience and waiting for His timing and trusting in His wisdom to be displayed. When we allow God, we have a real testimony that points all the glory to God. We are at peace and rest. We don’t have to deal with the aftermath of us doing things our own way and getting it wrong. We save relationships.
I pray that we will always allow the Lord to take the lead and we will submit to His will and His way in Jesus name. May the Lord help us.
Grace to you….