A dear friend of mine tries to see if she can guess and match the coffee I am drinking in the morning. I decided to make it easy today. My mug is filled with Door County Cherry Crème Coffee. This is one of my old favorites.
There are times in life when we need to wait on God. Many people find that waiting for anything is nearly impossible for them. I am one who urges the microwave to go faster. I forget what life was like pre-microwave. Not being patient has consequences. let's look at the life of Jacob.
Jacob’s life began with a struggle. As a twin in the womb with Esau, he jostled for position and was born grasping his brother’s heel. Jacob’s name is translated as “he deceives” (Genesis 25:26). When his mother, Rebekah, asked God during her pregnancy what was happening to her, God told her that there were two nations within her womb who would become divided. One would be stronger than the other, and the older would serve the younger (Genesis 25:23).
Jacob and Esau grew up together living a nomadic life. Esau became a fine hunter and loved to be out and about in the countryside while Jacob was a quiet, “stay-at–home” type (Genesis 25:27). Esau, being a hunter, was his father’s favorite as Isaac loved the wild game Esau brought home, while Jacob was favored by his mother (Genesis 25:28). This destructive favoritism would follow the family into the next generation, most notably with Jacob’s son Joseph. Such was Jacob’s favoritism for Joseph that it caused great resentment among his brothers and nearly cost Joseph his life.
When Isaac was old and his eyesight faded, he realized he was near to his death and made arrangements with Esau to pass on to him the blessings due to the firstborn son (Genesis 27:1-4). On hearing this, Rebekah hatched a plan to deceive Isaac into blessing Jacob instead. Thus, Jacob received his father’s blessing, and as Esau discovered, this was the second time he had been deceived by his brother (Genesis 27:36). Esau vowed he would kill Jacob for this as soon as the period of mourning was over for his father’s death (vs. 41).
I assume that Jacob knew what God had told his mother. Their trust in God to bring it about was very low. They decided to take matters into their own hands. they could not wait on the promise of God. What resulted was a promise to kill Jacob by Esau and twenty years of Jacob looking over his shoulder in fear waiting for a beat down by his brother. Jacob lived in fear.
As Christians today, we are still impatient and want God to move on our commands, not the other way around. If we find ourselves in a position to wait on the Lord we should wait and stay content, pouring ourselves into prayer and the Word. This will keep us from jumping ahead in God's plan and screwing things up totally.
Waiting is not the norm these days. But when we forget to wait on God, we rush things ourselves and tell God He is not that important. We take control of situations and many times we end up wrestling with Go, instead of being led by Him,
This is most non-productive and is a worthless waste of time when jump ahead of God. Wait on the Lord and soar like the eagles instead of cowering in fear like a mouse. Jacob had to cower.
Learn to wait and be content.
Marty
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