A Planned Mistake With A Purpose

One thing that I have always enjoyed about this story is how God has even predestined our mistakes to be a part of His glorious plan. In order to explain this I first need ya’ll to recall a scripture you should have read yesterday: Genesis 25:23 ‘and the lord said to her “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”. Many of us have read today’s scripture before, it’s the story of how a younger brother deceives his father and steals his older brother’s blessing. Now, some of us may be thinking, “that’s not a big deal”, but in the culture of the time, the father’s passing of the blessing had huge significance. The first born male in every household inherited the bulk of his father’s estate and possessions and usually the other children worked for, or served, the oldest. So for Jacob to come in and steal his brother’s blessing pretty much meant that he just stole his brother’s entire future, possessions, inheritance, the whole thing. No, you might say, Jacob was just doing what his mother told him to do, but that is really a lame excuse. Jacob knew exactly what he was doing, he knew what the consequences were going to be, and the risk he was taking in deceiving his father. But you see, God is always at work, and has a plan and a purpose for everything that He allows to happen. You will see as you read farther along, Jacob didn’t necessarily rule physically over Esau, but because of Jacob’s deception, it sent him on journey that would one day lead to one of his son’s becoming ruler over all of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh himself, fulfilling the prophecy that was read at the beginning of this blog. It acts as a reassurance to me, that even though I make mistakes, and I know that I will continue to make mistakes, that God is always in control. Not only am I confident that He is in control, but everything that happens, no matter how bad it is, is part of purpose and plan that He has set out for my life, and there is a reason for everything. My challenge to you today, is to not blame God for what might be happening in your life, or for what may have already happened in your life, but to trust in Him with all your heart, and to lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Him (Proverbs 3:5, 6), and trust that everything, even our sin that we commit, is part of a planned mistake with a purpose.
Tanner Butkay