There’s an old saying that death always comes in threes. It’s just a superstition, but it does reflect the fact that sometimes in our lives there are times when it seems like everything is coming at us at once. This seems to be one of those moments for Jacob. Just as he’s finally finished his [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Isaac’
Bless you, my son
Posted: January 22, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: blessing, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Rebekah
Well, this is interesting. After all that scuffle about who’s getting what blessing, when Rebekah tells Jacob she doesn’t want Jacob to marry a Hittite woman (like Esau did), Jacob calls Isaac and… blesses him again. He sets Jacob up as the inheritor of Abraham’s blessing – to be the father of nations, of God’s [...]
Be careful what you wish
Posted: January 21, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: blessing, competition, division, equality, Esau, Isaac, Jacob
Yesterday Isaac blessed Jacob, thinking he was blessing Esau. He wished for his son not just good things that Jacob could enjoy himself or with his family – he wished that this son would be master to his brothers, that he would have and be better than anyone else. Today, Isaac learns that his blessing [...]
In yesterday’s reading, we saw Isaac and Rebekah waiting patiently for the LORD to answer their prayers. And the LORD does answer, and says to Rebekah, “your older son will serve your younger son.” And then, in the part we skipped, Esau sells his rights as the firstborn son to Jacob. Now Isaac is about [...]
Good question!
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: faith, Isaac, prayer, questions, Rebekah
Rebekah and Isaac are like most people. When it comes to how they live their lives, they choose a mix of old ways and new ones. Like Abraham and Sarah, they worship the LORD, and they care about what the LORD has in mind (which is a little remarkable considering that Isaac was nearly killed [...]
Um. What?
Posted: January 18, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: Abraham, faith, Isaac, sacrifice, testing
Ok, don’t get me wrong, there’s already a lot of stuff in the Bible – but sometimes I wish there were just a little more. Like today. I’d really love to know what happened between verse 2 (“Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to [...]
Ishmael comes up very little in the Bible, and yet, in what does come up, he’s an amazingly interesting character: -conceived in strange circumstances -abandoned by his father, and nearly by his mother -saved in the wilderness by God -destined to be the father of a great nation -and (not in today’s reading, but) despite [...]
