LIFE SCRIPTS

30 After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. 31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.” 32 His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.” 33 Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!” 34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!” 35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.” 36 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?” 37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him Lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?” 38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Genesis 27:30‭-‬38 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/gen.27.30-38.NIV.

This portion of scripture depicts the troubled soul of Esau. It also depicts the betrayed heart of a father that is Isaac. Jacob had left a bitter taste in the mouths of his brother and father. He had brought sorrow and misery. Instead of joy, wails prevailed: instead of the pride of a father, Isaac’s heart sunk deep. A striking chain of events ensued from this instance. Esau developed a grudge against his brother. Jacob had all the blessings. He was proclaimed greater than Esau. Esau felt cheated the second time. The first being the time he was cajoled to sell his birthright to Jacob. The extent of the bitterness in Esau’s heart is depicted in verse 38. Scripture says that he ‘wept aloud’. Injustice pains. It hurts and hurts really bad. Perhaps one would say that the blessings were Jacob’s after all since God had proclaimed favor over him. Quite on the contrary. God’s choice of Jacob was a sovereign choice. He had proclaimed a blessing over him when in his mother’s womb and His word would definitely come to pass. He needed no assistance or facilitation to bless Jacob. However, Jacob, the chosen one chose to play his cards under the table. He chose to give his brother and father a raw deal. It’s interesting how a man chosen of God would choose to walk such a fraudulent path filled with trickery and con-manship. But don’t we? It’s amazing how many promises God has proclaimed over our lives through His word. Yet we are sometimes caught up in this same ‘Jacob’s syndrome’. Even though we’re blessed, when the odds seem stacked against us, we choose the easy way out. We choose to corrupt our way up the ladder of fame and fortune instead of waiting on a God who remains true to His word. We choose to bribe our way to get the contract or lie our way into a job or twist our morals for that offer or speak half truths only because that opportunity looks sumptuous and we can’t wait for the Lord’s timing. If it’s not now, then it’s right now! We are held hostage by a tyrant. That tyrant has a subtle name yet so potent. That tyrant is called ‘impatience’. God’s blessings over us are sure. However, they are fulfilled by Him at His appointed time. He’s the One to determine the time He’ll take to bless us. Ours is to wait upon Him. Even when situations seem to be working to our disadvantage, we must keep on trusting in Him. So Jacob deceived his way into a blessing which God had already promised his mother years before. God would still blessed him. However, first, He would deal with Jacob’s rough edges and deliver him from his deceitfulness. In the meantime, Esau, his brother simmered with anger and a grudge against him because he had been robbed of his blessings.