Passing on Your Legacy

Good morning,

Just finished hooking up my irrigation pump this morning. It's been disconnected for 8 years. Guess what God did? It's pouring rain now! Makes me think He has a real sense of humor.

Genesis 26:2-5:

2 The Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you about; 3 stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, 5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions."

From our Life Values study guide:

This portion of Genesis is about Isaac, Abraham's son. At this time he was considered a foreigner in the land of Canaan, the lands that God had promised to Abraham and his descendants. God instructed him to stay put; that He would bless Isaac's offspring and also the whole world through them.

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Do you feel blessed by God because of your father or mother? Does it seem in this passage that God is telling Isaac that he will be rewarded because of his father's faith and obedience? What about his own faith and walk with God? Not mentioned here. This might make me feel inadequate, that I couldn't live up to my father's reputation. Isaac didn't feel that way. He served God in his own right. I think that God does bless our obedience, and as our children see our example, our legacy of the blessings of God can go forward into the future in the same way that Abraham's did. Follow God, follow Jesus, let the Holy Spirit work in your life everyday.

Blessings!

Jerry

You don't have a soul, you are a soul;
you have a body.
C.S. Lewis