30 After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. 31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
32 His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”
“I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
33 Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!”
Then Esau wept aloud.
Genesis 27:30-38
I can feel Esau’s agony through the text. His out cry and begging reached through the pages. In Esau’s time, the eldest would receive a blessing from their father as a spiritual inheritance. Earlier in Esau’s story, he gave up his birthright, which was his physical inheritance and now there’s nothing left for him, so we wept bitterly.
This text reminds me of mankind’s limitations (Isaac only having one blessing to give) and God’s endless storage of blessings for His children.
Like Esau, I too wanted Isaac to speak a blessing on him out of empathy, but God’s will and plan had to be pushed forward.
Today, you may feel like your blessing has been given to someone else, that it’s lost, may never come or it’s too delayed to make a difference, but I want to tell you that God has a blessing with your name on it.
Be encouraged with this song and insert your name into the lyrics!
See you next week!
Things Above 
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