His Secret Place
Title: Are You Robbing Your Children?
by Fay Davidson
Are You Robbing Your Children?
Genesis 27:33
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 blest!”
Blessings are strange things: they are only words coming from the mouth
of God or through some other person and yet thy can determine the course
of one’s life.
In the Book of Numbers, Balak wanted Balaam to curse the Israelites, God’s
chosen people, because they had become too prosperous and he hated them.
He promised Balaam that he would reward him richly and give him whatever
his heart desired if he would only curse the Israelites. Balaam, a prophet
of God, with no heart for God, was taken in by the King’s offer and would
have cursed the Israelites, if he could, but God stopped him. Each time
Balak tried to manipulate him into cursing the Israelites, only words of
blessings from God came out of Balaam’s mouth. Finally Balaam told the King:
I have received a command to bless; he [God] has blessed, and I cannot
change it. Numbers 23:20 (NIV)
But it is not just the blessings of God, which carry this eternal weight.
Man’s blessings are very similar to the blessings of God.
Both Jacob and
Esau understood the value of receiving the blessing (good words) of their
aged father before he died. The blessing rightfully belonged to Esau, the
oldest son but Jacob sought to rob his brother of his blessing (words).
So he dressed in his brother clothes and did everything that would convince
his blind father that he was his brother. The old man was deceived and pronounced
the blessing (good words) over Jacob.
When Esau returns for the blessing of the oldest son, he was devastated
when his father told him he had already spoken the blessing over his brother.
Esau cries out to his father to bless him anyway. But Isaac tells Esau that
he has already blessed Jacob, ‘and he shall be blessed.’ That means he could
not retract the blessing. He could not take it back. It was the blessing
of God given to the father to speak over his eldest child. Jacob turned
out to be head of his brother.
What happens to children, teenagers, even adults today when no one blesses
them; when neither father, mother or grandparents speak the promises of
God into their life? They are left vulnerable for any evil be spoken over
them and affect the course of their lives.
Don’t rob your children. Speak
words of blessings over them. Pray the blessings of God upon them. Words
are life.
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