WE CELEBRATE JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR EVERYDAY -- 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31
Post date: Feb 29, 2012 4:03:04 PM
Isaac was a child of promise and of great patience and very peaceful. Born at a proper time and destined to inherit the labor and blessings of His father Abraham. Abraham made adequate provisions for Isaac before he died. Removing to the best of his knowledge all forms of perceived oppositions to Isaac’s future well-being and inheritance. (So did Christ Jesus for you). Though Abraham’s thoughts and provisions were very effective for Isaac, yet Isaac experienced oppositions from sources his father never thought of and never expected to see.
His first experienced adversity was the famine in the land of Gerar. He overcame that famine through obedience to God’s instructions and through consistency in sowing in the land. Not by moving to another country though he thought about that or city or even changing carrier. “And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of” Genesis 26:1-2. Obedience will make a way for you despite adversity.
The second adversity was the continuous envy and strives of the people of Gerar against him. He overcame all these adversities by seeking to follow the path of peace rather than the path of confrontation with the people. “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord” Hebrews 12:14. When friends, colleagues or family members decide to become foes, you, follow the path of peace. When people jealous or strive against you for no other reason than that you are blessed or making progress every day, you, follow the path of peace not confrontation. When people change their attitude towards you, don’t change yours towards them. Since they cannot stop your God from blessing you, they will try to stop you from receiving and living in the blessing.
What Isaac did to sustain and to live in the blessing. (1) He was patient to the end and inherited the blessings from His Father Abraham. (2) Against the will of the people of Gerar and their determinations in sealing off and stopping all of his father’s wells, Isaac never stopped digging more wells to keep the blessings from perishing. (3) In obedience to God’s instructions, he sowed in the land of Gerar despite the famine and reaped a hundredfold in just one year. (4) He never allowed adversities to distract his focus on living in the blessings.
Did you know that those adversities rising up against you are not because of who you are but because Christ died on your behalf to pave the way for you to inherit a promise just like Isaac?.
Don’t ever try to look at your God from your strength or wisdom. The best of human strength and wisdom are failing every day, but your God will never fail and His blessings will never fail.
Follow the steps of Isaac and you will never lack the testimony of a hundredfold harvest despite the adversities, envy and strives of men against you. By reason of your salvation, you have done the first thing Isaac did. Go ahead and do the remaining three.
“Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great. Genesis 26:12-33
You will never lack the comfort of our Lord Jesus