What Issac did

"Issac 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!'" - Gen 27:33

"He replied, 'You of little faith, why are you so afraid?' Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm." - Matt 8:26

When Issac realized that he had given his first blessing to Jacob instead of Esau, he must have been horrified, and felt deceived, to say the least. Furthermore, Esau was his favorite son and Issac was not seeing well. He must have felt cheated by Jacob. But looking at v23, God had said to Rebekah, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger." There can be no greater clarity than the last line: Esau will serve Jacob. So when Rebekah sent for her son, Jacob to take the identity of his elder brother Esau, she was following God's will. Perhaps, it was not her intention to deceive Issac, although the act itself contained an element of deceit.

Regardless of whether he felt he had been deceived by Jacob or Rebekah, he took it upon as God's will. He could not have undone what he had earlier done, the only thing he did was to bless Esau as Jacob's soldier - "You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother." (v40)

How often, I ask myself then, or rather how little times have I been like Issac?

PRAYER:
"Abba Father, I want to thank you for showing me Issac's faithfulness even before his death. Father, often times when I have been in a similar position as Issac, feeling like the whole world has conspired against me, what do I, Lord? I lament and ask you why is it that You did not want to work things out my way. But, O God, I am only but a midget. Who am I to question Your sovereignty Lord? So, Father, would you help me to become like Issac, that although he was man, he has been fully faithful to You right to his last breath. Grant me the kind of faith that you will be well pleased with. Amen."