Thou art now blessed of the Lord

“We see plainly that the LORD has been with you.” Genesis 26:28

Genesis 26 reminds us that God often does extraordinary things through ordinary people. Isaac was not as famous as Abraham, nor as prominent as Jacob, yet when famine came, God called him to stay in the land of promise and trust Him there. Isaac obeyed, planted his crops in a famine, and reaped a hundredfold because the Lord blessed him.

But blessing was not without its trials. The Philistines envied Isaac, filled in his wells, and pushed him away. Yet Isaac did not give up. He kept digging. He moved from contention, to hostility, to the broad place where God made room for him. That is a powerful picture of the Christian life. We are called to keep digging wells of prayer, faith, service, forgiveness, and witness, even when life feels dry or others throw dirt into what God is doing.

By the end of the chapter, even Abimelech could see it: “The LORD has been with you.” Isaac did not need revenge. He did not need to prove himself. He was blessed of the Lord.

In Christ, that is true of every believer. We are not waiting to be blessed one day; we are blessed now. So this week, in the ordinary places God has put you, keep planting, keep praying, keep serving, and keep digging.

Dave