Of course we do want to couch this word within the context of scriptural sobriety and sober warning, but the plan is for us recognize how spectacular a plan of blessing God has intended and purposed for us.
First, the admonition in Hebrews (written to discouraged Jewish believers in Messiah, and intended to be read and embraced by us all):
Hebrews 10:35-36
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:…
Yes we have to be careful not to cast away the great reward, particularly in trying and troubling times.
Meanwhile, this is what we would be encouraged and blessed to consider today.
BACKGROUND: Isaac was trying to find water, to survive, and for his family and his herds to survive. And here’s what the Lord says:
Genesis 26:24
24 And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham’s sake.”
Do we get that? Isaac, in the midst of his daily survival struggles, gets an appearance by God who tells Isaac:
1. Not to fear; AND
2. He will blessed, NOT FOR ANYTHING Isaac has done, but simply because Isaac is a son of Abraham.
How great a God do we serve?
And how great would it be to think we might be in line for some kind of blessing like that?
We are:
Galatians 3:5-9
5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—
6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”
9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Galatians surely fleshes out the promise of blessing to the NT believer, whether in the family of Abraham by blood, or not.
The issue is clearly not physical bloodline – it’s about spiritual bloodline.
And that would be us, the ones who believe in the work of cross and come into, and remain in, the adoption by faith.
Genesis 26:24 (lightly touched upon, in the fear of the Lord, and in recognition of the eternal validity of His word)
24 And the Lord appeared to (your name here ________________) the same night via the promise of His eternal word and said/says to you, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham’s sake.”
Hebrews 10:35
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
Yeah God.
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