Douglas MacArthur was an American general of consummate skill. He overcame curvature of the spine, was top in his classes at West Point, and advanced through military ranks due to his superior skills. He is widely considered to be among the best military leaders the United States has ever produced.
His mother, Pinky MacArthur, felt her son needed a little help up the chain of command. Over the course of his career, she continually campaigned for his advancement through letters to military brass, social contacts, and even appeals to Washington politicians. There was no limit to which Pinky would not go to advance her son’s standing.
Yet Douglas was brilliant in his own right. At the time of his graduation from West Point, only two men had achieved better overall scores, and one of them was Robert E. Lee, the genius level commander of the doomed Civil War Confederate forces. Douglas MacArthur was his own best advocate. He surely would have vaulted to the top of the pecking order even without his mother’s help. Sometimes we try too hard to achieve what’s coming to us anyway.
Genesis 27:28 is drawn from the elderly Isaac’s blessing to his son Jacob:
“Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.”
That seems simple enough, and Jacob certainly received all these things. God, however, had already promised that Jacob would be the one to whom these things would come. Jacob’s mother wasn’t content to let her son advance through God’s natural order. The blessing was a farce, for Jacob pretended to be his brother, Esau, at his mother’s instigation.
Our supply chain for provisions, both spiritual and material, is already in place. God has already promised us he would provide our needs. We don’t need to manipulate the world to ensure the Father’s riches become ours. Rather, we should find our confidence in our relationship with Christ as our Savior, and trust in the truth found in the Word, where we read in Deuteronomy 4:31:
“[God] will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.”
God is our provider, and the answer to our needs is already on the way.
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