Broken Relationships Redeemed Reveal Blessings.

Read Genesis 27  and discover how while yet in our sin the blessing of a father already begin to unfold and are revealed as God redeems us from the sin holding us captive.  God doesn’t bless as we would rationalize a blessing to work. In Genesis 27 Jacob steels a blessing from His blind father Isaac, yet in spite of such treachery and letting his mom, convince him to do so, he later grows to be able to bare God’s great blessing. Although Isaac says he only has has one blessing to give Esau by the end of this story comes to forgive his brother and he is living in great blessing himself. Somewhere along the line before he ever met up with Jacob again he had learned to shake off his brother’s rule. It wasn’t that Jacob was a king over Essau, it was that Esau’s unforgiveness held him in bondage to his brother. These brothers had sin issues that were being revealed through the relationships in this house.

It is remarkable how God reveals our sins and issues pardons for our own heart using the very ones whom we’ve hurt or have hurt us.  Esau was probably counting the number of times his brother would take advantage of him. Jacob probably struggling with co-dependency or was approval seeking from his mother, thus wouldn’t stand up to her when she had him dis-respect Isaac. Esau and Jacob had sin issues, forgiveness issues and their  their relationships were revealing the very areas needing redeemed by God. Look at your relationships around you? What are they saying about areas that you need redeeming? The promise is when redemption and healing comes in that relationship it is followed by great blessing.

In God’s Sovereignty even though the story looks like Jacob doesn’t deserve the birth right God wrote the story and sees that it is right and good because it is a story designed to bring each brother closer to God and eventually closer to each other although they don’t see it yet. Even though it seems so unfair for Esau, God wrote the story and it is a story where both brothers who still had much to learn were also both going to be blessed as God’s story unfolded.  When we surrender to knowing that God is writing our story and no matter how it looks there is a blessing in it, our journey, including our daily routines, and even our struggles can become beautiful. We can have a peace that God is telling a redemptive story through each of us that will yield a blessing beyond anything we can imagine or dream. This week learn to shake what holds you like Esau and Jacob did. Trust the God writer of our story and you will go through each chapter with peace and discover God’s blessing outside the norm in ways you can’t imagine, desire or dream.

Only Jesus can take our sin that is revealed in our relationships and shake it from us to unearth blessings that come from His redemption. “3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined usb for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9making knownc to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.” (Ephesians 1:3-10)