Genesis 26:26–33
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a fascinating and instructive episode in the life of Isaac. It is a story about wells, wealth, and the weighty reality of God’s blessing. In our therapeutic and sentimental age, we tend to think of God’s blessing as a warm, fuzzy feeling, a private spiritual comfort. But in the Scriptures, the blessing of God is a tangible, potent, and world-altering force. It is the kind of thing that makes pagan kings nervous. The chapter leading up to our text is a story of conflict, but it is a peculiar kind of conflict. He reaps a hundredfold in a time of famine. They stop up the wells his father had dug, a malicious and economically crippling act in that arid land. He moves to the valley of Gerar, digs new wells, and his servants find water.