CAN MAN ACTUALLY HELP GOD?
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Genesis 28:1-4

When we consider the new blessings Isaac pronounced on Jacob we find it very interesting because he had formally blessed him as a result of the scheme of mother and son, and of a truth this was quite different from that. The former blessing was fought for, brought enmity in the family and almost led to bloodshed, and the pronouncement obviously showed that was not the original blessing in the family (that is the covenant blessing God made with Abraham). And I will want to think Isaac himself wasn’t aware of that when he was blessing Jacob initially. Left to him he would have wanted to transfer the blessing to Esau which was the reason for the turn of events, but God being the omniscient (all knowing) brought about events which perfectly coincides with His will without the help or thought of anyone. Isaac finally blessed Jacob with the blessings of Abraham when he was about to send him forth to the people of his mother, Isaac was already old and about to die, if he had died earlier on he would not have provoked the blessing in the life of his sons because the initial blessing wasn’t the right blessing. So as he grew old he got to understand better and the inspiration of the Lord came upon him and he eventually pronounced the right blessing in the life of Jacob. I will also want to believe if Rebekah and Jacob were aware of this they would not have gone on with all the stress of scheming; this clearly shows that God needs no help and was never a party to the scheme employed by mother and son.

If we really think about the dealings of God with man right from the onset, then we will see clearly that there is no need for the schemes we employ many at times trying to help God with our far limited abilities. We forget that God always see the whole picture and function as such, while we only always see a fraction of the whole, so no matter what we employed without total dependency on God we are bound to fail and often find ourselves fighting against Him and His will for our lives as the case may be. Even when we are certain of His will for our lives, we still fall short many at times with whatever thing we might be doing in the flesh to speed up the fulfilment of His will in our lives. Of a truth when we mature and have come to the measure of the fullness of Christ in God, we will do less and depend more on Him to do in our lives that which we can’t do ourselves because we would have come to understand that He knows best and everything is working together for our good even when events ‘seems’ to be against His will in our lives. The understanding that everything will fall just right because He is in charge should never be compromised even when things don’t look it in the physical, but when we do things to further His will we are actually working against it, and moreover things gets more complicated in our lives just as it does in the lives of Jacob.
So in the case of the covenant family, things eventually worked according to God’s perfect will despite the human abilities (Esau), the scheming (Mother and son), and the nonchalant attitude (Isaac), of a truth total dependency on God is the only way for the actualization of His purpose for our lives.

Stay blessed and remain rapturable

Truly said