Face to Face

It’s been 20-years now, and Jacob has been on the run from his brother Esau. He has been haunted by the fact that one day. Sooner or later he was going to have to face his brother. He knew he couldn’t run forever and not a day passed that Jacob didn’t worry about it I’m sure. I wonder if there are any Esau’s in our lives. Something we know that we will have to face; oh we pretend that it’s not there, we don’t want to think about so we push it back into a far corner of our mind. Your Esau maybe drugs, no, no, not those kind that those awful street people take. You know those drugs like those little pills that help you get to sleep at night or maybe it those pills that help you in the meeting. You just can’t really do good without them. You tell yourself “I’m not addicted to them….I’m, I’m not on them… that’s what you keep telling yourself. But sooner or later you know you are going to have to face reality. Maybe your Esau is alcohol; oh no not what you are thinking it just helps you relax  or maybe it’s a certain sin; you think it will all just one day go away. That’s what I thought too but it didn’t go away and some 40 years later I had to deal with it face to face. Maybe it’s a broken relationship like Jacob’s; he knew that Esau was going to killing him but he was so wrong about that. That’s what the enemy wants us to think; embellish the problem make it bigger than it really is. Never forget this verse it will help you when all seems to be going wrong.

John 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Never forget that Jesus wants you to have life and have it not just abundantly but more abundantly.  You may say “I have been strung out on drugs for years there is not hope for me. That is just what the enemy wants you to think because when you think that way you are allowing the enemy to steal your joy, kill your happiness while he continues to destroy your life with that sneaking thinking. What happened that day that Esau and Jacob met?

Genesis 33:1  And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. Looks bad don’t it Jacob? Your doomed, your day of destruction has arrived. I don’t know how he felt; how would you feel if it had been you? Now watch how feeling can mislead you.

Genesis 33:4  And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

Jacob didn’t see that coming at all; so what am I trying to say? To sum it all up is to say that your Esau may not be as bad and stressful as you think.