Watching Daily At My Gates

August 1 Read Genesis 27:1-5 Isaac had received the covenant promise from God. He had heard of it from his father Abraham. He had been told at the birth of his sons that it would be through Jacob that the promise would be realized. But Isaac, like us, had the old man of sin in him. Isaac favored his son Esau for very earthy reasons. He considered Esau a man’s man, while he considered Jacob a mama’s boy. And so as he neared death he tried to give the covenant promise to Esau. We must not be too...