ISAAC - The Water Releaser

 ISAAC THE WATER RELEASER

(Genesis 26: 1 – 25)

There was drought in the land, and this wasn’t the first time. Drought had been experienced in his father’s time. He was going to head to Egypt to escape the drought, but God told him to go to Gerar, because in there the promise of God would be fulfilled.

He heads there, panics that the people there would kill him over his beautiful wife’s sake, so he lied that she was his sister. Two things:

1. He did not believe that the God who told him to go there would protect him.

2. He repeated the behavior of his father in lying when faced with a scary situation.

So here you have Isaac, influenced by the trans-generational influence of his late father and living a lie. Yet the grace of God was on him. Even though he lived the lie for a while, he could only maintain it for so long before he was exposed. Again, the grace of God showed up for him as mercy. A decree was enacted to protect him.

It wasn’t long however when the greatness of the covenant of God on his life caused him to prosper. The people soon began to despise him, not because of anything he did, but because they felt insecure next to him. So, they made him to leave.

He left to the valley and dwelled there with his servants. He dug a well in the drought ridden land and hit water. This had been the wells of his father that the enemy had stopped up before him. Here he was rediscovering water where his father had discovered. True to form, the enemy shows up to quarrel with him over the newly discovered well in a drought ridden land. Isaac left it for them, because the covenant on him had anointed him to discover water in barren places. He dug a second well, and found water, and once again the enemy showed up to dispossess him of it. He leaves it and finds a third spot in this drought ridden land to dig for water. Once again, he discovers water – this time the enemy let him be.

Then he moved to Beersheba, and God showed up to him, confirmed His promise and covenant with him. Isaac built an altar there, and dug another well, and settled there.

Dare I say, the covenant operating on Isaac’s life made him able to dig in any drought ridden land and discover water, while the people in the land couldn’t dig the same land to find water. The source of water was in Isaac! Throw him in a wasted barren land that nobody could dig up water, and he would show up and dig up water! How much more we of the New Covenant, whom God has said rivers of living water would flow out of us? Throw us in any barren land, and we would be the source of life-giving water. The covenant operating on our lives intimidating the insecure folks around us.

Glory to God!!