This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
The whole theme of chapter 22 is that the Lord shall provide. It’s a bit of an extreme story. Abraham being willing to sacrifice his son to God, but through that obedience, God was able to show Abraham (and Isaac by the way) that he can provide.
Chapter 23 is hilarious to me. Aside from Sarah dying, there’s this great exchange of Abraham trying to pay for land to bury Sarah, but the locals wanting to give it to him, but Abraham wanting to pay, etc. It reminds me so much of the conversations I have with many international students and people. Where they want to give me something but I say no, but they are insistent. Some things really don’t change.
In chapter 24, the thing I love about this story, apart from the fact that Isaac gets a great deal without having to do any work, is that when the servant who is assigned to get a wife for Isaac goes and tells the story to Rebekah’s family, he doesn’t try and sugar coat or abbreviate, he just tells the story how it is. I think we would be well off to do the same when telling others our intention and where we’ve come from.