Issac to Rebekah

Genesis 21 - 

Issac is born to an aging Abraham, all as the Lord God had promised. We must remember the promises of the Lord our God in all His Word. Seek and ye shall find Christ Jesus has said. Study to show thy self approved. 

2 Timothy 2:15 NKJV - 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV - 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

There are promises all throughout the Word of God, we must seek first His kingdom with all our hearts. The only way to succeed in this to be in the Word of God. We must Study the Word to be approved to God. 

Genesis 21 - 

Now that Isaac is born to Sarah she looks upon Ishmael and is jealous, she doesn't desire Isaac to share his inheritance with his brother of her bondservant. She tells Abraham to get rid of him and his mother Hagar which is her (Sarah's) bondservant. Abraham didn't wanna do this but the Lord his God told him to do as she wished and that Ishmael was of his seed so he would multiply him. 

Genesis 22 - 

Now the Lord his God tested Abraham. God commanded him to go and sacrifice his son as a burnt offering to the Lord his God. Abraham done as he was directed by God. but right after he built an alter laid the wood and bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar he raised his knife to give his son as commanded by the Lord his God, an angel of the Lord his God stopped him and told him not to harm the boy. Then he turns and a ram in the thicket is provided to him for his sacrifice. 

Now this has always been a very tough one for me. I think on this and I pray on this and it's still tough. I'm so regretful or I was so regretful for my past actions. I used to put my boys up on a pedestal. I placed them above all else in my life. nothing or no one was ever going to amount to nothing compared to my boys. They were always first and foremost in my life. I openly placed my boys before God. Thank you Father for your mercy and grace, I clearly don't deserve, but I know you have forgiven me, and cast it as far as from the east to the west. I now know my place in this world and only want to be able to give that wisdom and knowledge to my children now and let them forget the wicked knowledge that I had raised them in. I do all I can to live a life for the Father and follow His will as He lays it in my path. I continually desire to live the remainder of my life only for the Father. Holy Spirit Help me be all you desire and will for me to be in the sight of God. 

Genesis 22-23 - 

Abraham learns of his brothers family, Sarah passes and he grieves. Abraham purchases land for his family to be buried in. Now Ephron was very fond of Abraham and he wants to give the Land to Abraham, but Abraham kindly refuses a gift he insists upon the purchase of the land to lay his bride (Sarah) to rest. I see this as he desired a place of his purchase that no one could ever come back and dispute, a place that would forever be his family's burial ground.

Genesis 23:19-20 - 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. 20 So the field and the cave that is in it were deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as property for a burial place.

Genesis 24 - 

Now this chapter I could go all day about but at this moment I lack the time to do so. Abraham sent his oldest and most trusted servant to fetch a wife for his son Isaac. Abraham made him promise to not take a woman from the Canaanites and to go back to the land of his father in Mesopotamia. Abraham's servant swore it in an oath. He departed and found Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. The servant spoke with God this day asking for a woman for his master's son Isaac, and before he even completed in the asking of the Lord of his Master she appeared and was exactly as he requested. He claimed her and her family agreed and she agreed and she went with him to return to be the wife of his master Isaac. They went back to Isaac and Isaac took her as his wife.

I think this is such an amazing story. The love in it. The faith in the servant. The faith in the Lord to provide his wife. Isaac took who the Lord brought for him and he loved her gratefully. nowadays we cant even be happy with our own choices let alone someone else's. If we only put our trust and faith in the Lord with everything in our lives we could be so happy not content but happy, continually filled with the joy of the Lord. I want to be continually filled with the Joy of the Lord my God. 

Father please help me from this day forward to place my trust and my love in you. Help me to have the faith of Isaac in my life, help me to have the faith of Abraham to lay all I have on the altar of sacrifice to you. I want nothing between you and me Father. Help me enrich my life to only glorify you in all I do. Father I beg your forgiveness in all my selfish petty desires, please let my only desire be to fulfill your will over my life and all those around me. I give you all the honor and glory that could ever be had. I pray all this in the wonderful redeeming gracious precious marvelous glorious humble thankful sacrificial name above all name, Christ Jesus of Nazareth, Amen!