Gen 28: 7-8 “Jacob obeyed his father and his mother…
Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father. Esau
went unto Ishmael and took a wife…”
Having already married against his father’s will, Esau sought
to marry another, who God had already rejected, in hopes of pleasing his father.
Esau rested in a partial reformation by pleasing his parents in one thing, to
atone for all his other misdeeds. Esau didn’t learn from Jacob’s obedience, but
only sought to please his father (i.e. man) and not God, in hopes of obtaining
only what he wanted. Carnal hearts are apt to think themselves as good as they
should be, because perhaps, in some one particular instance, they are not so
bad as they have been. Micah (Jdg 17) retains his idols but thinks himself
happy in having a Levite to be his priest. “No man knows how bad he is till he
has tried very hard to be good.”
The right thing, with the wrong motive, is the wrong thing…
HSAY
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