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.” Genesis 26:24
There was a famine in the land similar to the earlier one during Abraham’s time. So Isaac went to King Abimelech of the Philistines. The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Don’t go to Egypt. Stay where I tell you. Live here in this land for a while, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give all these lands to you and your descendants. I will keep the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. So Isaac stayed where he was.
Isaac planted crops and harvested a hundred times as much as he had planted because the Lord had blessed him. He continued to be successful, becoming very rich. Because he owned so many flocks, herds, and servants, the Philistines became jealous of him and filled in all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during his father Abraham’s lifetime.
So Isaac dug out the wells that had been dug during his father Abraham’s time and gave them the same names that his father had given them and said, “Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in this land.”
He went from there to Beersheba...where the Lord appeared to hem 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.”
We lose our way when we begin to believe the goodness of God is a result of our own righteousness. In truth...God blesses us for the sake of his servant Abram...and all the righteous men that followed him...all the way down to my father George. The only question remaining is, "will I be part of the chain of righteous servants who ensure the blessings pass to the next generation?"
Live boldly out there today...
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