Jacob Lied about Food & God

12/06/2006

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                  Focus:  Jacob lied about food, and God

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 27:20                 

            Message of the verses:  “20 Isaac said to his son, ‘How is it that you have it so quickly, my son?’ And he said, ‘Because the LORD your God caused it to happen to me.’”

            Jacob continues to lie to his father Isaac, and things get worse, as he even lies about the Lord giving him success to kill the game that his father is now eating, even though the game is a goat that his mother prepared to give to her husband, which was also a lie.

            I find it interesting that Jacob says to his father that it was “his God” who gave him success, and it is possible that Jacob would not truly know the Lord until he wrestled with Him many years later, even though he was following Him for many years.  His grandfather Abraham could also be an example of that for he truly followed the Lord, but came to know him in chapter 15 of Genesis where he put his trust In the Lord as witnessed in verse six.

           

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  It is truly not a good thing to do to lie to your parents and a worse thing to lie to the Lord, or about Him, which is what Jacob has done in these verses.  I would suppose that I lie to the Lord when I say that I will stop doing a sinful thing, or am proud when I don’t do it for a while, and yet God had given me another verse, which was the one before the one He gave me earlier, and that is 1 Cor. 10:12, which reads as follows, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.”

The Word of God has been convicting and challenging to my heart as I read and studied it this morning.

My Steps of Faith Today:  By the grace of God continue to use the verses, (the Sword of the Spirit), against the enemies which are not flesh and blood, that are against me.