At times he was strong in faith, giving God glory, and at other times he was weak and self-pitying, as when he complained in Genesis 42:36 that: “Everything is against me!” It is a lethargic Christian who cannot see his or her own vacillating faith in Jacob’s inconsistencies. One point in which we often resemble Jacob is his readiness to believe bad news. Are we not all like that at times, we seem to want to believe the bad news?
Interesting. "All these things are against me." Jacob poured out his grief on them, because as far as he was concerned, Joseph was dead. And as for Simeon, who had been held hostage by Joseph—as far as Jacob could see—he might also be dead. And now here was this power down in Egypt asking that they deliver the apple of Jacob's eye to him.
