What is covered
Genesis 25:
- Abraham’s 2nd wife was Keturah
- They had 6 sons, including Midian
- Abraham gave all to Isaac, but gifts to the others
- Abraham sent the others off to the east
- Abraham died at 175, Isaac and Ishmael buried him
- The geneology of Ishmael and Isaac
- Ishmael had 12 sons who were princes
- Isaac and Rebekah had Esau and Jacob
- Esau sells his birthright for some red stew
Genesis 26:
- Isaac moves to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar because of famine
- Isaac says Rebekah is his sister because he is afraid since Rebeckah is beautiful
- Isaac prospered there until Abimelech told him to leave
- Isaac moved to the valley and re-dug the wells Abraham had dug
- The people quarreled over wells so Isaac would move out and dig another until they didn’t quarrel over one and there he settled
- God repeated His promise to Abraham also to Isaac
- Abimelech came and made an oath between them to do no harm
- Esau took two Hittite wives who were a gruief of mind to Isaac and Rebehak
Psalm 6:
- David cries out to the Lord asking for deliverance from his enemies
- David rebukes his enemies because the Lord has heard his prayer
Luke 10
- The Lord appoints 70 and sends them out two by two
- The harvest is great but the workers are few
- Jesus gives warnings as He sends them out
- The 70 return with joy
- Jesus gives authority of the power of the enemy
- But rather rejoice that your names ar written in heaven
- Jesus rejoices as well and tells the disciples that they are blessed to see what prophets and kings have longed to see
- The lawyer asks “And who is my neighbor?”
- The parable of the good samaritan
- “Go and do likewise.”
- Jesus visits Mary and Martha
- Martha asks Jesus to tell Mary to help out
- He doesn’t
2023
Scripture
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.
Genesis 25:34-35
Observation
Esau was plenty old enough to make his own decision. He did things different from his parents and this gave them “grief of mind.” What is that? Is it grief of death? The death of unmet expectations. Should your presumtions of how others live or choose actually deserve to die?
Application
This passage struck me because my sons are finding companions and as a parent I worry and wonder how things will go for them.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, please help me to recognize that the choices of others are outside my control. You know what is best for us, and yet you let us chose and sometimes have to learn from it or grow through it. But although you don’t chose for us, you do give wise counsel. Dear Lord, I pray that you help me not to keep silent and withdraw but to engage in counsel – and Lord, let that counsel be wise caunsel. Amen.
Tomorrow’s Reading: Genesis 27-28; Psalm 4, Luke 11