70 ENCAMP IN GRACE

 

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ENCAMP IN GRACE

Today’s chapter is Genesis 26

Read the section verse refers to

After Abraham’s death, there was a famine and Isaac settled with the Philistine king Abimelech (meaning My father is king). The Bible describes Isaac reaping 100 folds the first year he sowed. And he just kept having success in farming and raising livestock. Eventually, they became too much for the Philistines and Abimelech told Isaac to find another place to live.

GOD’S BLESSING IS NOT AN INVISIBLE MINUS, BUT A VISIBLE THING THAT CAN BE SEEN AND ENVIRED.

Isaac moves on and encamps in Gerar Gen. 26:17.
The Hebrew word for encampment is chanah חָנָה, which is interesting to us because it is related to the word for showing grace chanan חָנַן.

Finding an oasis where one could camp was for nomads like finding God's grace. Here there was water to drink, food to eat, fire to warm oneself by.

The noun chen חֵן means both grace and beauty.

IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE, THE PARALLEL IS THAT WE FIND REST AND PEACE IN BEING LOVED AND FORGIVED BY GOD, NOT IN THE DESERT OF WORKS.

Grace is like finding home to mother and father.

The meaning of the word gratis, which we have from the Latin gratia, extends all the way back to this Hebrew word. In Hebrew, it is the adverb חִנָּם Chinam meaning free, without payment, undeserved.

Gen. 29:15:
Laban said to him, "You shall not serve me for nothing, חִנָּם, just because you are my relative; say what you will pay me!"

Grace is a mystery to frozen hearts.
Sometimes we don’t want God’s grace to rule either. For example, if we are mistakenly busy judging others.
The prophet Jonah fled from God for a very strange reason: because of grace.
El Chanan – אֵֽל־חַנּוּן – a gracious God is one of the names of God in the Hebrew Bible.
The expression only occurs in Jonah 4:2 where Jonah speaks to the Lord.

Jonah fled to Tarshish because he knew that the Lord is El Chanun – אֵֽל־חַנּוּן
He did not want Israel’s enemies to be shown mercy.

GOD WANTS TO MEET US WITH GRACE, IF WE WILL ONLY
OPEN OUR HEARTS TO HIM AND LET HIM COME.

The first place we encounter grace is in the story of Noah.

BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD Gen. 6:8
This was the beginning of God’s salvation of man and animals.

Remember that! It is grace that saves.

John writes:
OF HIS FULNESS WE HAVE ALL RECEIVED, AND GRACE UPON GRACE; FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN THROUGH MOSES, GRACE AND TRUTH CAME THROUGH JESUS ​​CHRIST. John 1:16-17

IT IS IN JESUS ​​CHRIST THAT GRACE HAS COME, THAT IS WHERE YOU CAN FIND GRACE AND REST.

Shalom and God bless you!
amen