Hunt Game For Me

Genesis 27:3, a very deep verse for me. It was spoken in a time of reflection. A father whom in his failing health wanted his first born to hunt game for him so he could eat of it before he died. The NKJ version of the account reads like this, "Now therefore, please take your weapons and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me" and the KJV also adds to "take me some venison." If you're a hunter and you think hard on this one you might begin to shed a tear. One of the last things Issac wanted to do when he was old and near death was taste wild meat taken by his son Esau. No doubt at least in my mind, they had shared this hunt together many times before, with many good memories. I use a little liberty in my thinking here, it is not recorded, the ways of these two men as outdoorsmen but I see in my mind Issac, and Esau talking in the late nights of the morning hunt. I see them low in the bushes or in a rocky crevace, hearts in their throats as the deer or antelope approach. I see great shots, missed opportunities, Issac with his hand in the sand showing Esau a track. Just a young boy, but with a bow in his hand given to him on his birthday. Arrows sharp and ready. Like me I bet Esau had a favorite arrow or weapon. One he wanted to take game with and did until it was damaged by a floundering deer. No doubt the souvenir put upon his shelf. No longer able to see, Issac new Esau by the smell of the outdoors and he breathed it in. I am sure he listened to every account of Esau's hunting adventures. Obviously Issac could have asked for a sheep in the fold to be prepared and eventually was by Jacob who took away the blessing but there was more to it to him than that. Issac wanted more before he died. He wanted to live again while he ate the savory meat he loved from a place he loved, a place he remembered so well. He even spoke to Jacob whom was decieving him, thinking it was Esau, "How have you found it so quickly my son?" Then he asked the person to come near and he felt of him and smelled him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed." I could really let my mind go here. I don't know what is due me, how long I will live or how I will die, but I will die. I might hope for a similar if not the same request as Issac. To smell and taste the field once more.