One evidence of the authenticity of the Scriptures is the fact that it records the story of God’s people “warts and all” as we would say. The Bible is not a “sanitized” recording of history, it is an accurate account. As you read Genesis chapter 30 you discover that there are some pretty unusual…
The deceiver deceived! The Bible says: “…whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” (Galatians 6:7). In Genesis 29 Jacob learns the hard truth of that! Just as he deceived his blind father, so he is deceived by his uncle Laban into 14 years of labour to gain the hand of the woman…
Someone has wisely said: “God has no grandchildren, only sons and daughters!” To truly belong to God’s family, one must accept Jesus as his/her personal Saviour and be converted. Towards the end of Genesis chapter 28 we see a very different Jacob emerging as he begins his personal, lifelong devotion to God. No longer…
A little more this morning regarding the ladder in Jacob’s dream! I never cease to be amazed at how earnest prayer seems to release the mind to enjoy the things of God! How gracious and merciful He is to simple, needy people like me! My mind was turned to a passage of Scripture this…
On Friday we read the story of Jacob’s dream of the ladder to heaven that had angels ascending and descending upon it and we talked about the amazing grace shown to Jacob the deceiver and cheat. This fellow was so deceitful! Listen to the conversation between him and his father: “And he (Isaac) said,…
Genesis 28 tells of a stony pillow and a ladder to Heaven! The “one-liner” that comes to mind as I read this story again this morning is: “Where there is a will there is a relative!” How many families have been fractured beyond repair by the human greed that shows itself when a rich…
Genesis 27 is a sad story of deception. Isaac, aided and abetted by his mother Rebekah, deceives his blind father into giving him the birthright blessing belonging to his twin brother. By downright dishonesty and trickery, he pretends to be Esau. Before the birth of these twins, God had declared to Rebekah: “Two nations are…
Genesis 26 reveals the fact that God’s chosen people do not always have a peaceable life on earth! Isaac is living in the land of the Philistines and while God blesses him with an abundance of livestock etc. his pagan neighbours soon become envious. King Abimelech finally becomes afraid of the size of Isaac’s…
I wonder why we seem to make the same mistakes as our parents before us? So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” because he thought, “lest the men of the place kill…
A lighter post seems to be in order today. I was woken in the early hours with the thought that it was time to write another song. When I asked the Lord what I should write about, I was impressed with the thought that it should be about what really makes a person happy!…