Tuesday July 11
Bible Reading: Gen. 26: 22 - 33
Topic: Covenant Relationship With God
God reaffirmed the
covenant relationship with Abraham to Isaac saying "I am the God of
Abraham, your father", and He added
that He would bless and multiply his descendants for his father Abraham's sake.
God is a covenant keeping
God.
Even the heathens around
Isaac quickly noticed that his kind of prosperity was not ordinary. They
confessed they had seen that God was with him and desired to enter into a
relationship with him.
In response to God's
affirmation of the covenant and promises, Isaac did two significant things. He
built an altar to worship God and he pitched his tent there. This made his
relationship with God personal. He is no longer the God of his father Abraham
but also his own personal God.
Pitching his tent there
and building a place of prayer signified that he intended to maintain an active
relationship with God.
God desires that we have a
personal relationship with and commitment to Him and that our lives would daily
be filled with His presence and goodness.
He is a covenant keeping.
When we draw close to Him, He will continually watch over His Word with us to
perform it (Jer. 1: 12)
Prayer
Father please open my eyes
to see You as You really are. Help me to know that You are a covenant keeping God,
Amen.
Memory Verse Gen. 26: 24
"And the Lord
appeared unto him (Isaac) the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham, thy
father; fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee and multiply thy seed
for My servant Abraham's sake."
Source:
The Daily Fountain 2017
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)
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