He Dug Again His Father's Wells (The Assurance) (Gen. 26:23-25)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11-17-2006

 

My Worship Time      Focus:  He Dug Again His Father’s Wells (The Assurance)

 

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 26:23-25

 

            Message of the verse:  “23 Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

24 The LORD appeared to him the same night and said, ‘I am the God of your father Abraham; Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you, and multiply your descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham.’  25 So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.”

           

            Just as the Lord came to Abraham in the 15^th chapter of Genes with words of encouragement, words telling him not to fear, so he comes to Isaac with words of encouragement and also telling him not to fear.  I guess a fair question would be why was Isaac afraid? And the answer to that question could be that the confrontations with the others in his land may have been what caused him to be afraid and so God came to him to calm his fears.  It should be noted that God said that He would bless Him and multiply his descendants for the sake of His servant Abraham. 

           

            Isaac did as his father before him, by building an altar and by living in a tent.  Isaac was a very rich man and could have lived in a very nice house, but he lived in a tent and worshiped at his altar for him to live as a pilgrim in a strange land who like his father Abraham was heading home and was living for the Lord whom he worshiped at his altar.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  God was blessing Isaac for the sake of His servant Abraham, and likewise God blesses me for the sake of His Son, The Lord Jesus Christ, for I am “in Christ,” as the Scriptures say over and over again in the NT.  There is no better place to be than “in Christ!”

 

The Word of God has been very refreshing to my heart as I read and studied it this morning.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord in all situations that He leads me into, and to continue to ask the Lord to teach me contentment and to direct my paths.