創世記27:30-46

27:30 以撒為雅各祝福已畢，雅各從他父親那裡才出來，他哥哥以掃正打獵回來，
27:31 也做了美味，拿來給他父親，說：「請父親起來，吃你兒子的野味，好給我祝福。」
27:32 他父親以撒對他說：「你是誰？」他說：「我是你的長子以掃。」
27:33 以撒就大大地戰兢，說：「你未來之先，是誰得了野味拿來給我呢？我已經吃了，為他祝福；他將來也必蒙福。」
27:34 以掃聽了他父親的話，就放聲痛哭，說：「我父啊，求你也為我祝福！」
27:35 以撒說：「你兄弟已經用詭計來將你的福分奪去了。」
27:36 以掃說：「他名雅各，豈不是正對嗎？因為他欺騙了我兩次：他從前奪了我長子的名分，你看，他現在又奪了我的福分。」以掃又說：「你沒有留下為我可祝的福嗎？」
27:37 以撒回答以掃說：「我已立他為你的主，使他的弟兄都給他作僕人，並賜他五穀新酒可以養生。我兒，現在我還能為你做甚麼呢？」
27:38 以掃對他父親說：「父啊，你只有一樣可祝的福嗎？我父啊，求你也為我祝福！」以掃就放聲而哭。
27:39 他父親以撒說：地上的肥土必為你所住；天上的甘露必為你所得。
27:40 你必倚靠刀劍度日，又必事奉你的兄弟；到你強盛的時候，必從你頸項上掙開他的軛。
27:41 以掃因他父親給雅各祝的福，就怨恨雅各，心裡說：「為我父親居喪的日子近了，到那時候，我要殺我的兄弟雅各。」
27:42 有人把利百加大兒子以掃的話告訴利百加，她就打發人去，叫了她小兒子雅各來，對他說：「你哥哥以掃想要殺你，報仇雪恨。
27:43 現在，我兒，你要聽我的話：起來，逃往哈蘭、我哥哥拉班那裡去，
27:44 同他住些日子，直等你哥哥的怒氣消了。
27:45 你哥哥向你消了怒氣，忘了你向他所做的事，我便打發人去把你從那裡帶回來。為甚麼一日喪你們二人呢？」
27:46 利百加對以撒說：「我因這赫人的女子連性命都厭煩了；倘若雅各也娶赫人的女子為妻，像這些一樣，我活著還有甚麼益處呢？」

³⁰ After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. ³¹ He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

³² His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”
“I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
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 blessed!”
³⁴ When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
³⁵ But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
³⁶ Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob^[a]? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
³⁷ Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
³⁸ Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
³⁹ His father Isaac answered him,

“Your dwelling will be
    away from the earth’s richness,
    away from the dew of heaven above.
⁴⁰ You will live by the sword
    and you will serve your brother.
But when you grow restless,
    you will throw his yoke
    from off your neck.”

⁴¹ Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

⁴² When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you. ⁴³ Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. ⁴⁴ Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides. ⁴⁵ When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”

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    利百加因為不喜歡以掃而弄到兄弟不和，家庭不安寧，甚至雅各要投靠遠方的舅舅，不知是好事還是壞事？但是，人生許多事情是自己不能決定的，只能靠上帝來面對各樣的變化！

    在我的生命中似乎和雅各一般，發生得讓我不知如何處理，但是仰望上帝，上帝卻有許多奇妙的帶領，連我自己都料想不到，也沒有刻意去安排我的人生，可是每一個階段都有上帝的賜福！

    因此，有時候不要做太多的生涯規劃，反倒是要仰望上帝，讓上帝來帶領和保守，要相信上帝的安排是最美好的，更要相信祂的應許必定成就！

創世記27章

                       創世記27:1-29   ,

                      創世記27:30-46 ,

創世記27:1-29

27:1 以撒年老，眼睛昏花，不能看見，就叫了他大兒子以掃來，說：「我兒。」以掃說：「我在這裡。」
27:2 他說：「我如今老了，不知道那一天死。
27:3 現在拿你的器械，就是箭囊和弓，往田野去為我打獵，
27:4 照我所愛的做成美味，拿來給我吃，使我在未死之先給你祝福。」
27:5 以撒對他兒子以掃說話，利百加也聽見了。以掃往田野去打獵，要得野味帶來。
27:6 利百加就對她兒子雅各說：「我聽見你父親對你哥哥以掃說：
27:7 『你去把野獸帶來，做成美味給我吃，我好在未死之先，在耶和華面前給你祝福。』
27:8 現在，我兒，你要照著我所吩咐你的，聽從我的話。
27:9 你到羊群裡去，給我拿兩隻肥山羊羔來，我便照你父親所愛的給他做成美味。
27:10 你拿到你父親那裡給他吃，使他在未死之先給你祝福。」
27:11 雅各對他母親利百加說：「我哥哥以掃渾身是有毛的，我身上是光滑的；
27:12 倘若我父親摸著我，必以我為欺哄人的，我就招咒詛，不得祝福。」
27:13 他母親對他說：「我兒，你招的咒詛歸到我身上；你只管聽我的話，去把羊羔給我拿來。」
27:14 他便去拿來，交給他母親；他母親就照他父親所愛的做成美味。
27:15 利百加又把家裡所存大兒子以掃上好的衣服給她小兒子雅各穿上，
27:16 又用山羊羔皮包在雅各的手上和頸項的光滑處，
27:17 就把所做的美味和餅交在她兒子雅各的手裡。
27:18 雅各到他父親那裡說：「我父親！」他說：「我在這裡。我兒，你是誰？」
27:19 雅各對他父親說：「我是你的長子以掃；我已照你所吩咐我的行了。請起來坐著，吃我的野味，好給我祝福。」
27:20 以撒對他兒子說：「我兒，你如何找得這麼快呢？」他說：「因為耶和華─你的上帝使我遇見好機會得著的。」
27:21 以撒對雅各說：「我兒，你近前來，我摸摸你，知道你真是我的兒子以掃不是。」
27:22 雅各就挨近他父親以撒。以撒摸著他，說：「聲音是雅各的聲音，手卻是以掃的手。」
27:23 以撒就辨不出他來；因為他手上有毛，像他哥哥以掃的手一樣，就給他祝福；
27:24 又說：「你真是我兒子以掃嗎？」他說：「我是。」
27:25 以撒說：「你遞給我，我好吃我兒子的野味，給你祝福。」雅各就遞給他，他便吃了，又拿酒給他，他也喝了。
27:26 他父親以撒對他說：「我兒，你上前來與我親嘴。」
27:27 他就上前與父親親嘴。他父親一聞他衣服上的香氣，就給他祝福，說：我兒的香氣如同耶和華賜福之田地的香氣一樣。
27:28 願上帝賜你天上的甘露，地上的肥土，並許多五穀新酒。
27:29 願多民事奉你，多國跪拜你。願你作你弟兄的主；你母親的兒子向你跪拜。凡咒詛你的，願他受咒詛；為你祝福的，願他蒙福。

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”

“Here I am,” he answered.
² Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death. ³ Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. ⁴ Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
⁵ Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, ⁶ Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, ⁷ ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’ ⁸ Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: ⁹ Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. ¹⁰ Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
¹¹ Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. ¹² What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”
¹³ His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
¹⁴ So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. ¹⁵ Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. ¹⁶ She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. ¹⁷ Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
¹⁸ He went to his father and said, “My father.”
“Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
¹⁹ Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
²⁰ Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?”
“The Lord your God gave me success,” he replied.
²¹ Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
²² Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” ²³ He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. ²⁴ “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked.
“I am,” he replied.
²⁵ Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”
Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. ²⁶ Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”
²⁷ So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,

“Ah, the smell of my son
    is like the smell of a field
    that the Lord has blessed.
²⁸ May God give you heaven’s dew
    and earth’s richness—
    an abundance of grain and new wine.
²⁹ May nations serve you
    and peoples bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
    and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed
    and those who bless you be blessed.”

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    以撒本是要祝福以掃的，但是利百加不喜歡以掃，喜愛雅各，就設計謀讓雅各代替以掃得著上好的祝福！

    或許這也是上帝的心意，也再一次讓我們感受到，上帝有時候會不按常理成就一些事情，因為上帝是超越一切的上帝！正如他透過耶穌基督施行拯救，是要人因信稱義，不是用行為成義！越是想藉由行為，越是自以為義的，就越不能得上帝所賜的義！

    這雖然是一種悖理的狀況，也顯明了上帝的決對自由和絕對主權，人只能順應上帝的做為，不要以自我的想法和意念來與上帝相衝突！

箴言24:21-22

24:21 我兒，你要敬畏耶和華與君王，不要與反覆無常的人結交，
24:22 因為他們的災難必忽然而起。耶和華與君王所施行的毀滅，誰能知道呢？

²¹ Fear the Lord and the king, my son,
    and do not join with rebellious officials,
²² for those two will send sudden destruction on them,
    and who knows what calamities they can bring?

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    雖然君心難測，但是我們知道上帝是公平的上帝，祂必定毀壞那悖逆祂的人，不堅定倚靠祂的人，就必遭受到災害，因為沒有上帝的同在的人生，是充滿敗壞和虛空的生命！

    也因為這樣，我們要小心自己的朋友，不要被朋友影響，而是要來影響朋友，讓我們的朋友從不敬畏上帝改變成為敬畏上帝，這樣我們的人生才不會向下沉淪，才能夠向上提升！

    當然我們要成為影響別人的人，必須自己先堅定自己的信仰，不可以離開上帝，保守自己常在上帝的慈愛中，在基督裡讓上帝的話語來聖化我們，如此就是美好的人生了！

箴言24:19-20

24:19 不要為作惡的心懷不平，也不要嫉妒惡人；
24:20 因為，惡人終不得善報；惡人的燈也必熄滅。

¹⁹ Do not fret because of evildoers
    or be envious of the wicked,
²⁰ for the evildoer has no future hope,
    and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

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    在一般人的眼中感覺做惡的人因為有辦法，搶奪別人的成為自己的，讓人覺得他們好像很富足，於是十分羨慕！然而上帝告訴我們：「不要為作惡的心懷不平，也不要嫉妒惡人！」

    惡人雖然一時囂張，但是做惡得一定會受到報應的，這是真的！在我的年歲中的確靠到許多；惡人的燈也必熄滅，這也是真的，因為做惡的人不蒙上帝的喜悅，哪有明天可言呢？

    因此，我們一定要敬畏耶和華，並且要遠離惡事，如此我們才能蒙上帝賜福和得人的喜歡，如此我們的生命才是有意義的！