Wed.’s Devo - The Wells of Salvation

Read: Gen. 27-29
When Esau sold his birthright to Jacob it was a big deal in that day. It was Jacob who Isaac should have called in to bless since the blessing went to the first born and Esau had forfeited that right to Jacob. So what Isaac did by trying to give it to Esau was maybe worse than what Rebekah and Jacob did. What is so interesting is the power of that blessing. They knew that whatever Isaac proclaimed would happen. We have been given that same power in our tongues. We can bless and we can curse…it is our choice.
Esau never seemed to understand the things of God. He saw that his parents didn’t approve of the daughters of the land so he married the daughter of Ishmael because he was kin to Abraham. Jacob left and went to Padan-aram to marry someone from the blessed side of Abraham.
On the way, Jacob stopped at Beth-el and had a vision of angels ascending and descending on a ladder. God spoke to him and gave him the land he was in and blessed his seed. This was the same blessing God had given Abraham at that same place years before.
I love the fact that Isaac and Jacob both found their wives at a well. Rebekah earned her husband by watering the flocks of his servant’s sheep while Jacob took one look at Rachel and rolled the stone off the well and watered all her sheep himself. Rebekah was a picture of the Old Testament way to God through works and obedience. Rachel was a picture of the New Testament way to God which is total grace.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 6:7) Jacob tricked his father into giving him the blessing and he was tricked by his father-in-law into marrying Leah. It was God’s plan that Jacob receive the blessing and it was God’s plan that Jacob marry Leah. Maybe the way they went around them was not God’s plan, but the outcome was. I wonder how many of our mistakes play right into God’s plan.
Lord, you met us at a place where the only way we could receive living water was that you give it to us….just like the woman you met at the well. Thank you for Your living water that is a spring that never runs dry or loses its power.