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…
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…
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…
While Abraham had waited for 100 years to have his son Isaac, it becomes apparent that his brother Nahor had not had such a long wait. Nahor’s son Bethuel has children, including Laban and Rebekah, who are marriageable age. In answer to earnest prayer by Abraham’s servant, God reveals that Rebekah is to be…
I love to hear stories of answered prayer that are just too incredible to be coincidences! This morning I’m still pondering a few verses in Exodus 24 and I read there of Abraham’s old servant who has travelled to Haran to find a bride for Abraham’s son Isaac. As he stands beside the well…
Reading on through the remainder of Genesis 22 this morning, it becomes clear that sometimes God tests His earthly children to ascertain their level of commitment to Him. As Abraham is about to sacrifice the single most precious thing in his life, the Angel of the LORD says to him: ““Do not lay your…
In the very early hours, I was strongly impressed to digress a little from Genesis and bring to light a couple of passages from elsewhere in the Bible. They have to do with the personhood of the Holy Spirit. Some people have become very vocal in recent times in their attempt to show that…
Like most of us humans, Abraham didn’t learn by making mistakes just once!! Genesis chapter 20 sees him moving to a place called Gerar in the land of the Philistines, where he AGAIN foolishly spreads the half-truth that Sarah is his sister and not his wife. At the command of Abimilech, the Philistine king,…
As I’m grazing on the Word this morning in Genesis 18, four main things stand out to me. Abraham’s hospitality to strangers God’s personal interest in the lives of those who seek to do His will God’s amazing grace toward sinful people The possible influence of Christians in the community Abraham sees three visitors…