Accept Afterward Afterwards Ahead Appease Behind Behold Face Further Gift Gifts Goes Grace Jacob Later Lifteth Moreover Offering Pacify Peradventure Perhaps Present Propitiate Receive Sending Servant Wrath
32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I {g} will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
(g) He thought it no less to depart with these goods with the intent that he might follow the vocation to which God called him.
32:9-23 Times of fear should be times of prayer: whatever causes fear, should drive us to our knees, to our God. Jacob had lately seen his guards of angels, but in this distress he applied to God, not to them; he knew they were his fellow-servants, Re 22:9. There cannot be a better pattern for true prayer than this. Here is a thankful acknowledgement of former undeserved favours; a humble confession of unworthiness; a plain statement of his fears and distress; a full reference of the whole affair to the Lord, and resting all his hopes on him. The best we can say to God in prayer, is what he has said to us. Thus he made the name of the Lord his strong tower, and could not but be safe. Jacob's fear did not make him sink into despair, nor did his prayer make him presume upon God's mercy, without the use of means. God answers prayers by teaching us to order our affairs aright. To pacify Esau, Jacob sent him a present. We must not despair of reconciling ourselves to those most angry against us.
Accept Afterward Afterwards Ahead Appease Eyes Face Further Gift Gifts Goes Grace Jacob Later Moreover Offering Pacify Peradventure Perhaps Present Sending Servant Sure Thought Wrath
Accept Afterward Afterwards Ahead Appease Eyes Face Further Gift Gifts Goes Grace Jacob Later Moreover Offering Pacify Peradventure Perhaps Present Sending Servant Sure Thought Wrath
