Genesis 27:15, 18-19 (KJV): And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son…And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
—
Jacob entered his father’s presence not as himself, but clothed in the garments of his elder brother Esau. His hands bore Esau’s hair and his smell carried Esau’s scent.
This story is more than just family drama—it’s a spiritual shadow of our relationship with God through Jesus Christ. We were not the strong, approved firstborns. We were the Jacobs—frail, flawed, and incapable of earning the Father’s blessing on our own. But through grace, we are now clothed in Jesus.
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:5, “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.”
Like Jacob, we do not come in our own sufficiency, but in the sufficiency of another—Jesus Christ. We wear His righteousness, use His name, and receive the Father’s favor not because we have earned it, but because we are in Him.
God sees Jesus when He looks at us. That is the beauty and mystery of grace—we do not boast in our works but rest in Christ’s. Hallelujah!
