- Genesis 26 Daily DEVO And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him. Genesis 26:12 – What God did in Isaac’s story is what He desires to do within your story. Not literally by multiplying your crops (I suppose though if you’re a farmer than possibly literally!), but God desires to bless you and bless you beyond your wildest dreams. Please stop listening to the lies that God is disappointed in you and longs for the day you mess up so He can punish you. That’s not God at all. If God longed to see you punished, He wouldn’t have sent Jesus to take your punishment for you. He wants for you to be filled with His blessing. Allow your life to be centered around and directed by God. Then will you begin to step into the plan of God leading you into His blessing for you. We see that promise through scripture. Follow what God says and it opens the doors for God’s promised blessings the be poured into your story. Seek today how you can orient you life more around God’s Word. Allow yourself to be in the position where God can bless you like He desires to. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac- Daily DEVO 506
- And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.” Genesis26:24 – God will repeat a promise so we’ll remember that promise. Seems odd that God would appear to Isaac like this only to tell him something Isaac has heard God say to him before. Yet how often have we heard the promises of God spoken over our life over and over and over…yet we still don’t remember them and lean into them when they’re needed? Like the promise that God will never leave you nor forsake you. Or the promise that He is working everything for our good according to His purpose. Or even the promise that God loves you despite all the reasons we give Him to not. Maybe the promise you’re hearing repeated the most is the one God is trying to get you to remember the most. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1830
- When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. Genesis 26:34-35 – In this chapter, we see the overwhelming and continuous blessing from the Lord on Isaac. God directed him where was best to find success in the middle of a famine. Isaac found enormous wealth from his work, we even see God blessed him with peace with envious neighbors. While these are specials blessings for Isaac, we also see such was the result of Isaac seeking to live faithfully for the Lord like his father Abraham did. Peace, blessing, and fruitiness comes when we place the Lord first and follow His word. We see this to be true in Isaac, and we see this truth be played out in Isaac’s son Esau’s life as well, yet in the opposite way. Esau takes a wife for himself from the Canaanites, something that the Lord specifically said not to do. We learn from later scriptures that Esau wasn’t a holy man, he didn’t place the Lord’s word as the guide to his life. See the examples God has blessed us with here. Holiness results is blessings, sinfulness results in bitterness for us and others. How often have you paused to think how deeply your lack of following God’s word has on others? Every sinful thing God directs us away from in scripture hurt us, hurts our walk with God, and hurts others. If you’ve grown content with the damage your sin causes you, allow yourself to see today the bitterness and destruction that our sin will have on others too. Live holy to be a blessing to others and honoring to the Lord. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2832
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