Sat.’s Devo - God’s Plan

Read: Gen. 35-37
God calls Jacob to Beth-el to renew his covenant with him and to repent of their worship of idols. They were to give up their idols, their earrings and change their garments. When we repent we have to do the same thing. We turn away from the things our heart was longing for, we take out the hinderances that keep us from hearing God’s voice and we strip off our self and put on Christ. When they did this their enemies were afraid of them. Satan is afraid of a person who is sold out to Jesus.
Why did God tell us that Rebekah’s nurse, Deborah died? She is not mentioned by name until here. In Gen. 24:59 we learn that when Rebekah left her home to go with Abraham’s servant to marry Isaac she took her nurse. If anyone has any revelation I would love to hear. I know that everything in scripture is there to teach us something. This is a mystery to me.
Moving along…God appeared to Jacob and gave him the same blessing and name-change that the angel had given him when they wrestled the night before he was going to meet Esau. But, now he actually starts going by that name.
So in chapter 35, Deborah dies and is buried in Beth-el, Rachael dies and is buried in Beth-lehem and Isaac dies and is buried in Hebron. And…Benjamin is born. Benjamin who stands for the church is born in the same town that Jesus would be born. We are a type of Jesus!
The chapter 36 is the genealogy of Esau. One of his sons names means “occult”. They were all dukes and princes.
In chapter 37 we begin the story of Joseph. We all know the story but I found it interesting that Reuben, who slept with his father’s concubine, which was so disrespectful would be the one who would want to make it up to his father by saving Joseph.
Joseph is such a picture of Jesus. Joseph was sold by his own brothers just like Jesus was sold to the Romans by his own nation. Joseph was given a glimpse of hope through his dreams just as Jesus had the dreams of his father to keep him going. Neither had the whole picture, they both walked by faith right into God’s perfect plan.
Lord, help us to trust that we are walking in Your perfect plan.