Day 019 (Genesis 22-24)
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This is the first time we’ve seen that God is the Lord of romance: He led Abraham’s servant straight to beautiful Rebecca, who fulfilled the servant’s prayer, and who had a trusting and willing heart to leave early and follow God’s will. Then, when Isaac is meditating, no doubt looking and waiting for her, there she appears, and he takes her into his mother’s tent and is a special comfort to Isaac after the loss of his mother. God loves writing a good love story!
I always thought Isaac was a teenager or perhaps older but I never paused to think that he could have resisted but didn’t, just like Jesus
Love the relationship the servant developed with God due to Abraham’s covenant with God. He served, prayed and worshipped the God of Abraham.
I lost my son to brain cancer almost ten years ago on Feb. 6th. He was 6 years and 9 days old when he passed. I couldn’t imagine being asked to offer him up for a sacrifice. I love that he trusted the Lord so much he was willing to do that. This reading was powerful today
I am so sorry for your profound loss. It was a powerful reading. Faith and trust.
Sorry for your loss
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So sorry for your loss. I can’t even imagine. This reading was a good reminder that our kids belong to Him, and He loves them more than we do. As mind-blowing as this is, it gives me hope to know that they are in better hands than my own.
So sorry for your loss. Yes very powerful today…I couldn’t imagine how Abraham had such great faith.
I love how you mentioned that God wanted Abraham to offer up Issac as a sacrifice to Him. In other words give me your son whom you love to me. In my opinion when we dedicate our children to the Lord we are in a sense offering up our children to him. To be their Father, their Protector, their Guide
“All my sacrifices TO God or FOR God originated as gifts FROM God. Nothing that I offer God finds its origin in me.” (around minute 3:22). This really spoke to me because I feel sometimes like I’M having to give up so much. The reality is, it was never mine in the beginning!
We can only begin to understand this when we humble ourselves and surrender to walk with Him🙏🏼Lord help us to understand this truth as we continue to grow in our faith through the study of your word🙏🏼
@Dulceknits Amen!
This resonated with me too… I looked at the amount I have to pay in Tithe and I was hesitant but with that sentence, I realized it was a gift from God! He can give me even more!
I love that you said, "All my sacrifices gifts to God and for God, originated as gifts from God...none of it originated in me." What a great reminder to be humble and to give. Thank you
Amen!
I love how Abraham strong faith and trust in Lord.
From Abraham and Sarah to Isaac and Rebekah, God weaves such an amazing love story.
My God shot came from 24:3 - the Lord, God of heaven and earth. He is not only the God of heaven. He is also the God of earth, right up close and personal. Leading us, guiding us and providing for us. Like he did for Abraham, his servant and for Isaac 🔥
Because Abraham purchased the burial plot, he owned a piece of the land God promised.
God's timing is impeccable. Before Abraham's servant had even finished praying, God answered (Gen 24:15). He gave Isaac a wife after the death of his mom and she was a comfort to him in his grief (Gen 24:67).
If only we all had the faith that Abraham had for God!
The Abraham story about him attempting to sacrifice his son Isaac is a parallel to Jesus. God, like Abraham, was willing to sacrifice His son. The Son Jesus gave up himself to be sacrificed; Isaac also gave up himself to be sacrificed.
I love the similarities in OT and NT! Isaac was the only son of Sarah & Abraham. Isaac willingly submitted to his father's will. God provided the sacrifice. Isaac carried the wood for his sacrifice. Jesus is God's only Begotten Son. Jesus willingly submitted to His Father. Jesus carried the wooden cross that He would be sacrificed upon. God provided the ultimate sacrifice of His Son! What a picture of pure love! The very Heart of our Father!
Amen!
Here's a new observation for me. Abraham insisted on paying full price for the cave to bury Sarah. I wonder if he accepted it for free, it would not have been deeded to his name. He valued Sarah and valued his family to have a proper burial place. I probably thought about that since I buried both of my parents recently in the burial place they chose. They wanted a verse on the tombstone to proclaim that they serve Jesus..... Abraham also had his family buried in the land God promised.
The insight about putting a hand under another's thigh is new to me and it makes a whole lot of sense.
Then the significance of Abraham negotiating to own a piece of the land that God had already promised him to own is something I read several times, but always missed. I love these nuggets!!
2024; God is so detailed. We are winners wth the Lord; thank you for accompanying me on my journey. 🙏🙏🙏
❤ How God provides- being in the Word fills the soul.
I see the Christ type Praise God ❤❤❤Oh what a Provider!! especially The Promise of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ❤️💯🤗 Have a Beautiful day in His Presence He is where the Joy is 💯❤️🤗
Beautiful! Today was my favorite reading this year! Wow! Great chapters!!
It never occurred to me that Isaac was a foreshadow of Christ. Wow...
I am so sorry for your profound loss. It was a powerful reading. Faith and trust.
Wow!!! Just wow
Read today with the 30,000 foot mindset. The father’s only son is offered as a sacrifice involving a 3 day journey. The un-named servant fetches the son’s bride. The son is not mentioned again until his bride is delivered to him.
Amen TLC!
I also wonder what was going on in Ishmael's head? "Only child? Hello?"
Tara Lee, I'd like to discuss your statement that the people back in Abraham's old hometown "worshipped the same God" and that's why he needed to get a wife from that area. I really wonder about this. Later on, when Jacob takes Rachel (et. al) out of that land, Rachel steals her father's idols & hides them... do you really think the people in that region (his relatives) worshipped YHWH? God called Abraham out of that region to set aside His people, but originally, even Abraham didn't worship the One True God... would love your comments on this. TIA
If I have just started this plan which will end in December I believe can I continue with it in 2025?
I'm a little confused by something you said. You stated that 'Abraham is called to offer Isaac as a sacrifice, not to sacrifice him' but the Bible says in Gen 22:2 ...Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you. Can you clarify your statement for me? Thanks!
Hhhhmm, in my bible translation it starts with "God tempted Abraham." Now I know where "lead us not into temptation" comes from in the Lord's prayer. Temptation comes from satan or people everywhere else in the bible. I had not considered that Isaac carrying the pyre firewood on his back was a pre-figurement of Jesus' passion. So God had tempted Abraham into "crucifying Christ". So God has tempted His people who seek His face into sinning against Him, as He says time and time again the taking of innocent life by the sword will demand the life of the killer by the sword. The fact that Jesus comes full circle and puts "lead us not into temptation" means God still tempts His people into sin and we have to ask Him not to. This is so eye opening and really shocking. I also notice Abraham "lies-ish" again by omission. First by not telling those people and Abimelech Sarai is his wife and letting them believe she was free to wife. And then again to Isaac who he doesn't tell he is going to murder. God blesses Abimelech and Abraham the same way when they move forward into sin with good intentions. Abimelech's women in his kingdom's wombs are opened. Abraham is promised bountiful progeny and legacy. Like Hagar, Abimelech was committing socially accepted adultery/polygamy but perhaps the difference between he and Hagar is he didn't despise others for it. Because God curses Hagar's line with being essentially the enemies of all peoples. God puts not curse on Abimelech's people only removes a curse incurred by his lust for Sarai. But this show's that even before the Ten Commandments God was cursing people for adultery, even if it was consensual and socially normalized adultery/polygamy. He uses Sarai and Abimelech for this example. God saves Abraham the way He saved Abimelech by stopping their "well-intentioned" sin before full consummation/completion. In the end of the reading Abraham corrects Lot's wife's mistake of "looking back" and loving the place of sin God was trying to take her out of and saying "do not look back", when Abraham commands Isaac not ever "be returned" to "where God took them out of". And Abraham corrects his mistake with Hagar by forbidding Isaac marry anyone outside of their people. Rebecca and the servant correct Abraham's mistake of lying by omission by literally repeating every single thing out loud to all people and no deception by omission, Rebecca leaves with haste and does not look back when God calls her out of where she came from, she just obeys the will of God. The end of Abraham's life encompasses collective correction of sin, spiritually putting his house in order in a material and functional sense. He corrects his undermining God's sovereignty when he unquestioningly goes to murder Isaac when before he could not let go of Lot whose incest with his daughters led to he creation of people who would attack Abraham's line in the future just like Hagar's line. Of course we don't know what would have happened if Lot never came with Abraham. The hard lesson of Abraham's life is every time we don't go 100% with what God is asking of us, it burns us and our legacy down the line in unexpected and sometimes violently scary ways.
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