Readings:
Genesis 26
Genesis 27
Psalm 19
Comments:
Some days you have to fasten your seat belt because a lot of information is packed into just a couple of chapters of the Bible.
The promise to Abraham is now also to Isaac. Isaac is to be given “the land” and he will be blessed by God. All the nations will be blessed because of Isaac’s descendants. We see that the work God began in Abraham and Sarah continues after their deaths.
Isaac and Rebekah’s two sons – Jacob and Esau – are very different. And there is a struggle between them. We see how this struggle plays out with all the usual family dynamics of most (if not all) families – parents who favor one child over the other, children going against their parents’ wishes, siblings outsmarting one another. Deceit. Strife. Sin.
Rebekah is successful in making sure her favorite, Jacob, receives his father’s blessing. But there’s a price – she sends him away for his own protection!
The Bible is full of stories of people like people we all know! Not saints. Not perfect. Not exactly heroes. People just like you and me. Perhaps that’s why we can relate so well to it and to the people we find in its pages. They are ordinary people. And many of them do extraordinary things because of the power of God in their lives.
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