Act in Kindness (Genesis 20)
"God said to him in the dream, 'Yes I know that in the intgrity of your heart you have done this and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.' " - Gen 20:6
Abraham used the same trick of telling this king that Sarah was his sister, instead of his wife. This was a half truth. She was his half sister, on one hand you might think that this was a sign that he did not trust God. On the other hand Abraham may have thought that this was a way that God was going to protect them. He assumed that Abimelech and his people were non-believers.
God came to Abimelech, and Abimelech was suprised and humbled. We see the Lord working in Abimelech's life and he knows that God has great power. He asks the Lord to spare his nation, for he had done nothing wrong. We see that God did have mercy on Abimelech.
When he found that Sarah was Abraham's wife, he gave her back. Abimelech could have been very angry and punished Abraham, but like God acted in kindness to Abimelech, so he acted in kindness to Abraham. He gave of money and land to Abraham as a peace offering and it appears they has a good relationship.
We can learn two things. First, that everyone we come in contact with are nessarsarly non-believers. If Abimelech was a non-believer, God used the situation to bring him to God. The ther thing is that we should treat others with kindness, just as God treated us with love.
Verse of the Day: "But when the kindness of God our Savior and [His] love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to [the] hope of eternal life." - Titus 3:4-7
For your reading:
The Bible in One Year: Ezekiel 24-26 and 1 Peter 2
Daily Bread: Haggai 1:1-11
Abraham used the same trick of telling this king that Sarah was his sister, instead of his wife. This was a half truth. She was his half sister, on one hand you might think that this was a sign that he did not trust God. On the other hand Abraham may have thought that this was a way that God was going to protect them. He assumed that Abimelech and his people were non-believers.
God came to Abimelech, and Abimelech was suprised and humbled. We see the Lord working in Abimelech's life and he knows that God has great power. He asks the Lord to spare his nation, for he had done nothing wrong. We see that God did have mercy on Abimelech.
When he found that Sarah was Abraham's wife, he gave her back. Abimelech could have been very angry and punished Abraham, but like God acted in kindness to Abimelech, so he acted in kindness to Abraham. He gave of money and land to Abraham as a peace offering and it appears they has a good relationship.
We can learn two things. First, that everyone we come in contact with are nessarsarly non-believers. If Abimelech was a non-believer, God used the situation to bring him to God. The ther thing is that we should treat others with kindness, just as God treated us with love.
Verse of the Day: "But when the kindness of God our Savior and [His] love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to [the] hope of eternal life." - Titus 3:4-7
For your reading:
The Bible in One Year: Ezekiel 24-26 and 1 Peter 2
Daily Bread: Haggai 1:1-11
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