What do these words stir up inside you: deceit, deception, dishonesty, lying, falsehood? Few things can damage or destroy a relationship, a family, a business, a reputation, a legacy and leadership more than these words, do you agree? Yesterday I left us contemplating how the miracle family of Isaac and Rebekah was about to be deeply damaged by the deceptive plan of Rebekah. She was coaching her son Jacob to pretend to be his brother Esau and steal his brothers’ blessing from their father Isaac. Rebekah was developing a plan to deceive her husband Isaac, and aggravate the ‘sibling rivalry’ which had festered since the time her twin boys were born. I can’t imagine what Rebekah was thinking, for surely she must understand neither her husband nor both her sons would ever trust her again?
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