Reactions to not Receiving Your Blessing

The Blessing

By William M. Self, Sr.

 

How do you respond when God does not

Give you the blessing you think you deserve?

 

Reactions to not Receiving Your Blessing

Human nature seems to “react” rather than “pro-act”.

Every one of us came into this world with

nothing and we will leave the same way.

There is this thing of our rights.

Or, maybe I should say free rights.

We tend to think God and others owe us.

The message of the Bible is not a

“prosperity message”… 

 Of name it and claim it.

 

The message of the Bible is a “provision message”…

God has supplied all of our needs,

 but you and I have to believe it and go after it.

 

Esau had the birth right,

 the promise to the family blessing.

The Bible says he despised his birth right

 by selling it for a bowl of stew.

But when it came time for Isaac to pass

 on the family blessing, he was tricked.

He was cheated by his mother and brother.

Yes, the family was dysfunctional.

But amazingly, Esau did not see his

failures and disregard to the family name.

When Esau did not get what he

thinks he should get, he rebelled.

He cried, but they were not tears of repentance.

When Isaac blessed Jacob, he commanded him…

 "Do not marry a Canaanite woman"

The Canaanites were the children of Isaac’s half-brother, Ishmael.

Esau reacted to not getting the blessing.

Esau went in rebellion to take a wife from the Canaanites.

There is a lot of dysfunctionalism in the family of God.

We, who believe, have the right to

“become” the children of God.

But what happens when we do not receive

the blessing we think we have the right to?

Do we react and rebel like Esau?

Or, do we pro-act…

Repent when we need to repent and

maintain the integrity of the family name.

We do not have the right to the family name of God?

We have the right to uphold it and pass it on to others.

With the right comes responsibility. 

 

Scripture Reading

Genesis 28:6-9 NIV

6 Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and

had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there,

 and that when he blessed him he commanded him,

"Do not marry a Canaanite woman,"

7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and

mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.

8 Esau then realized how displeasing the C

anaanite women were to his father Isaac;

 9 so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath,

 the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of

Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.