The Hermeneutic Dan of Love and Hate

Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and wept. When Christ on the cross says, my God, why have you forsaken me? this is the same sort of thing. This hermeneutic Dan does violence to our tendency to make ourselves the hero in every text and scripture, right? Yes. That's what we want to do. We want to see ourselves as King David fighting Goliath instead of the dudes cowering behind King David when he's fighting Goliath. But ultimately for the good of scandalous people like us, we find out that we're way more like Jacob than we ever wish we were. And yet