Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Genesis 26:1-6 (NIV)
1 Now there was a famine in the land—besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time—and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. 2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring [a] all nations on earth will be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws." 6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
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What a blessing and promise God gives to Isaac, because of Abraham's earlier acts of obedience... It feels if history repeats itself, as there is the breakout of a famine again so that people go hungry. However, God assures Isaac that God will be with him and bless him, if he obeys and does not go down to Egypt... How insecure and anxious how Isaac must have been just looking at this gloomy situation, where there was no food. However, he remains firm and trusts in the Lord, who promises to protect him and his later generations... How about us? Though we might feel to live in a desert with nothing around us, do we still have the faith to rely on Him?
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