rashly said to her son: “Let the curse fall on me” (Gen. 27:13). Think about that statement. The words Rebekah said so carelessly, never thinking that they might come true, Jesus also said to us even though he knew the full depths of what he was saying. Jesus took your curse so that you might inherit his blessing. The curse that Jacob deserved for his trickery, the curse that you and I earn for ourselves every day by our manifold sinfulness, was laid upon him, so that the blessing that was rightfully