Sat.’s Devo - The Birth of Jacob and Esau

Read: Gen. 24:52-26:16, Matt. 8:18-34, Ps. 10:1-15a, Pr. 3:7-8 I love how the people of the Old Testament knew that God was involved in everything. Rebekah couldn’t get pregnant, so Isaac interceded and God opened Rebehah’s womb. Rebekah could feel abnormal movement in her belly so she interceded about it. God told her that there were two nations in her womb. Two different kinds of people would come from her with two different amount of strength. The older one would serve the younger. This was before the age of ultrasounds. How specific God was. She did have twins, Jacob and Esau, and everything God said about them came to pass. God will go to any length he has to to see his will done. In Matthew, he needed to get across the lake to deliver a man possessed with demons. To deter him, the devil sent a severe storm. It didn’t upset Jesus, he just woke up and rebuked the storm. He knew he had a mission that no demon was going to stop. David found this out in today’s Psalms. He began by complaining that God hides himself in trouble just like the disciples did to Jesus in the boat. By the end of the Psalms, David relayed that God does see our troubles and our griefs. He helps the fatherless and breaks the power of the wicked and calls him to account. The disciples discovered this same thing when Jesus calmed the sea and delivered the demoniac. Lord, help us to acknowledge your power early in our distress. You are our deliverer!