I have read the chapters each day but this is the first day in a week I read the digging deeper part and wow!!! Families have been dysfunctional since the beginning!! A soap opera of sorts. I liked this part of digging deeper:

Rebekah successfully manipulated Isaac into telling Jacob to leave. This saved his life, but it is likely that this mother never saw her son again.

i. “Rebekah’s diplomatic victory was complete; but she would never see her son again.” (Kidner)

ii. In this tragic story, everyone lost. Each of the main characters – Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob – schemed and maneuvered in human wisdom and energy, rejecting God’s word and wisdom. Nevertheless, God still accomplished His purpose. The tragedy was that each of the participants suffered, because they insisted on working against God’s word and wisdom

God’s plan of course still came through but how many times are we like Isaac, Rebeka, Jacob and Esau to “help” God bring it to fruition. And of course when we do help God

we suffer the consequences like thrhey did