A relationship

Genesis 25: 19-21“And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.”

We live in a day of remote controls and microwave ovens. We expect everything to happen quickly. Fast food is called fast food because it is designed to be eaten fast. Fast food restaurants have a twenty minute parking limit because they expect that you will order your food then be served and eat it in less than twenty minutes. This is exactly the opposite of developing relationships. Relationships take time and are meant to last a lifetime if they are worthwhile. This is especially true of our relationship with God. This is a relationship that requires time. When God delays an answer to our prayers it is because He is graciously giving us time to develop our relationship with Him by praying more and more. Isaac saw that Abraham had a lifelong relationship with God and now God was inviting Isaac to have a lifelong relationship with Him. Isaac, wisely took the opportunity and spent time in prayer. We know that this relationship did last a lifetime. We can learn the same lesson and spend as much time as we can in prayer then we will have a lifetime relationship with God. Every time we pray, giving thanks and praise we are practising for heaven because that is what we will be doing there.

This section also gives another interesting insight into the book of Genesis. Abraham is, without doubt, the most important character in the book, apart from God, but there is no “these are the generations of Abraham” in the book. This is because Abraham was an active participant and it was left to his sons to compile the record of his life from his memories and their own. The other question is, “Why isn’t there are ‘these are the generations...’ at the end of the book?Joseph was the last character who compiled a record but he was trained in Egypt and used their methodology rather than the Mesopotamian methodology. (One last issue: the book ends with Josephs death so how could he have finished the book?Manassseh his son filled in the last paragraph to make sure his book was complete.)

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)