Many things,. like this meeting with Esau, are worse in anticipation than in actuality. The brothers were on the same old terms as before that filching of Isaac’s blessing. The holy transactions of the previous night had induced’ this change in the atmosphere. If our ways please the Lord, he will make our enemies to be at peace with us. We must win power with God, by yielding to him, before we can have power with our Ksaus and prevail. When you fear man’s wrath, do not run hither and thither for defence; be still and fear not. Commit your way to the Lord and read Psalm 37. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. Surely Jacob needed not to fear, or make these lame excuses and promises. He never intended to go to Esau, to Seir. As soon as the last ranks of his brother’s men were lost in the desert haze, he turned to go in the contrary direction. This dupheity was not worthy of the heir of the promises; but too many of us would have done the same, even on the morrow of the Jabbok-wrestle.