ISAAC
SOWED: Devotion for Saturday September 3, 2016
Text:
Genesis 26:12 – 14 Memory
verse: Genesis 26:12
The instruction God gave Isaac in Genesis 26:2
& 3 was "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall
tell you. Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you
and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which
I swore to Abraham your father.” Isaac obeyed God’s instruction and stayed in
Gerar (Genesis 26:6). He didn’t just stay, waiting for fulfillment of God’s
promise. In the interim, he sowed in the land where he was a stranger and God
blessed him 100 times more than what he sowed. He was not waiting for the death
of the Philistines to inherit their blessings. The blessing of God upon him attracted
envy of his landlords, the Philistines (Genesis 26:7). They forced Isaac go out
of their country. Wisdom and discretion teaches us to give up our right, and to
draw back from contentions. That was what David did when Saul went after him.
He ran to the Philistines. If we are
wrongfully driven out from one place, the Lord will make room for us in
another. So it was in the case of Isaac.
We should understand that Isaac didn’t wait
for God’s blessings as promised to start manifesting. He went ahead to do
something for himself. It was what he was doing that God blessed and he
prospered therein. God has promised to bless us. But we still have a part to play
in bringing the promises to fulfillment. When God provided manna, He kept them
outside and not inside the tent. He could have sent them into their tents but
it wasn’t so because He wanted to teach them that they have a part to play in
their blessings. Again it was to test their obedience. Isaac obeyed God and
stayed in Gerar when God blessed him and he prospered. How obedient are you to
God’s instructions?
Food
for Thought:
What and where can you sow so as to reap abundantly?
Prayer: As
I sow, O Lord, may I reap in abundance in Jesus name. Grant that I will not
reap into a leaking pocket in Jesus name.
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