Jacob’s Deceitful Posterity

Let us muse today from Genesis 38 and ‘Jacob’s Deceitful Posterity’. In verses 11-14 Tamar, Jacob’s daughter-in-law, deceives Jacob in to an affair with a harlot. Tamar did this because she was not given the husband of the next son after the death of her first husband. Jacob paid Tamar the harlot with some silver and his staff only to find out later that it was her. (vs. 14-18) Jacob, the deceiver, has been deceived by Tamar the deceitful. Oh, how lying and deception can be reaped over and over again in a family. Oh, let us be a people of truth, no matter the cost.