Not Our Way

Anyone ever tried to second guess God?  Or, have you ever tried to figure Him out?  Most likely all of us have at one time or another wondered why He did something the way He did it.  When I indulge in such musings, it usually means I think I can see a better way.  For example, if God wanted to make Jacob the recipient of His blessing instead of Esau, would it not have been an easier thing to have had him be the first twin born?  If such had been done, there would have been no need for Jacob to be involved in such deception and neither would his mother felt a need to push her favorite son into a position that did not rightfully belong to him.

 

What happened certainly makes for a better and more intriguing story, but surely God had more in mind than an entertaining and riveting story of a dysfunctional family.  Most of us can look back at the story of our life and see those kinds of moments when it could have been written a different way.  If we could choose to leave out some of the really hard and difficult moments of our life, we would likely quickly grab the opportunity.  But, such is apparently not the way of God.  He does not engineer our life so that it is empty of troubling moments, but He does always promise to get us through them.

 

As we read the story of Jacob, we see him coming to a place in his walk with God that we could not have imagined in the beginning.  His place of being the blessed one should have gone to Esau, but God had another way.  He had a something He wanted accomplished through Jacob and He found a way to do it despite what seemed to be impossible circumstances.  It is and will be no different with anyone of us.