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Genesis 27:13
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Rebekah says, ‘Upon me be thy curse.’ If we are found out I will take responsibility. We can't excuse Rebecca because although it was a noble aim that she had, and although she was ready to take the blame, she shouldn't have been doing it. She is an old lady; she would be sent away; she would be cast out of the home for deceiving her husband. Rebekah is not a horrible, selfish, cunning, scheming person; she is going the wrong way about doing the right thing. ‘I will take the ignominy and the punishment if a curse falls.’ She seems emboldened by her certainty that what she is about to do is consistent with prophecy. So Jacob went and fetched the kids, and she put the skins upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck. She gave him savoury meat and he came to his father.
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There is a danger that even when we are certain of what is the will of God, we may proceed in the wrong way. Rebekah was not excused of deception just because the oracle of God was in line with the general direction of her plan. She was responsible for the methods she chose to use. The will of God does more than prescribe the general direction of our lives. It addresses the details of each step that we may take. Attention to detail may hold us back from what appears to be a very straightforward decision.
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