Here we are - week 4, or rather part 4 of this series I'm going through. Last night we continued in our "Story of God" series and again - nothing to be disappointed by.
We went through two stories last night
The story of Esau and Jacob, and the story of Joseph.
What I find very interesting about these stories is how Jacob is within the two stories. In the story of Esau and Jacob - Jacob is the younger twin, now for whatever reason their father, Isaac favours Esau over Jacob and meanwhile the mother Rebekah favours Jacob.
Jacob continues on his life knowing this, and when it comes to the time for Isaac to pass on the blessing - through trickery - Jacob ends up getting the blessing - but Jacob knew the whole time that Isaac would know it wasn't Esau - assuredly because of their physical differences, but also most likely because Esau was the favoured son.
Now - time passes along - many years go by and Jacob(now known as Isreal) now has children of his own, one of his children is named Joseph. What I find interesting is the fact that Israel(AKA Jacob) has selected a son whom he favours, he favours Joseph so much that he even created a "coat of many colours" for him.(I mentioned a song in regards to this song - I suggest checking it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7I_9MMcWvk )
Anyways - I find it interesting that Jacob had a son whom he favoured - just as his father Isaac had a son whom he favoured.
It makes you wonder why such things happen in life. There is another song that comes to mind when I think of this...how from generation to generation the same things come about - but perhaps in a different way. The song I'm referring to is at the bottom of this post.
How can it be that a son who wasn't favoured - yet when he had children he himself favoured a son?
So the question would now become - do we have a trait in our lives that we've learned from our parents that has a negative impact in the lives of others?
We went through two stories last night
The story of Esau and Jacob, and the story of Joseph.
What I find very interesting about these stories is how Jacob is within the two stories. In the story of Esau and Jacob - Jacob is the younger twin, now for whatever reason their father, Isaac favours Esau over Jacob and meanwhile the mother Rebekah favours Jacob.
Jacob continues on his life knowing this, and when it comes to the time for Isaac to pass on the blessing - through trickery - Jacob ends up getting the blessing - but Jacob knew the whole time that Isaac would know it wasn't Esau - assuredly because of their physical differences, but also most likely because Esau was the favoured son.
Now - time passes along - many years go by and Jacob(now known as Isreal) now has children of his own, one of his children is named Joseph. What I find interesting is the fact that Israel(AKA Jacob) has selected a son whom he favours, he favours Joseph so much that he even created a "coat of many colours" for him.(I mentioned a song in regards to this song - I suggest checking it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7I_9MMcWvk )
Anyways - I find it interesting that Jacob had a son whom he favoured - just as his father Isaac had a son whom he favoured.
It makes you wonder why such things happen in life. There is another song that comes to mind when I think of this...how from generation to generation the same things come about - but perhaps in a different way. The song I'm referring to is at the bottom of this post.
How can it be that a son who wasn't favoured - yet when he had children he himself favoured a son?
So the question would now become - do we have a trait in our lives that we've learned from our parents that has a negative impact in the lives of others?
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