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The Syrophoenician woman ( Matthew 15:21-25 Mark 7:24-30).

The woman caught in adultery yet was pardoned by Jesus ( John 8:1-11).

Mary Magdalene and other women who traveled with Jesus ( Luke 8:2).

I’m still deeply moved every time I read about how the Lord respected, honored, and blessed women (these and many others): And he named them ‘Mankind’ when they were created” ( Genesis 5:2 Genesis 1:27-28 Genesis 2:22-23). The Lord “created them male and female and blessed them. Jesus elevates the status of women back to His original intention when He made and blessed Adam and Eve. If you and I love Jesus, what blessings does He offer us today? Unexpected Ancient Blessingsġ. Three weeks later, I also felt Jesus say to me, “Don’t worry about the future. Then I felt Jesus say to me, “Love Me!” And so I will.as I have.through storms and sunshine.until my last day on earth, I pray. This August, when I found out I had breast cancer, I initially despaired. I wrote down the words and have thanked the Lord for them countless times since then. Instead, He keeps loving and blessing us as we continue to abide in Him.Īt a pivotal point in my life’s journey, three-and-a-half-years-ago, I felt Jesus say to me, “David, I love you! I’m crazy about you, beloved! Experience My love now!” What a moving experience. Of course, we love the Lord only because He first loved us ( 1 John 4:19). God alone would have to do it, and both Isaac and Jacob believed that He would.Each of the four gospels says that anyone who knows and loves Jesus (as He really is) is a blessed individual, indeed! Moreover, though Isaac and Jacob were both wealthy, there was no way that they could fulfill the blessings themselves.

These blessings could only have been by faith, for they concerned things yet unseen in the days of Isaac and Jacob. So, too, was the blessing Isaac gave to Jacob and Esau future oriented, for he said that each would become a great nation in time (27:26–29, 39–40). This blessing was strongly future oriented, for Jacob foresaw that the nation of Israel, which at that point did not yet exist, would invoke the names of Ephraim and Manasseh in bestowing blessings and that both would father large tribes (vv. Not long before Jacob died, he blessed his grandsons Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, giving the better blessing to the younger Ephraim. Here, the events of Genesis 48 serve as the basis for the example. Next, the author of Hebrews says that “by faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph” (Heb. The Lord is quick to forgive us when we repent (1 John 1:8–9).

Of course, we should be striving to deny sin so that we grow in godliness, but at the same time we should not despair that God’s grace is far from us if we believe His promises and yet still transgress His law from time to time. This reminds us that true faith is not perfect, that it can exist side by side with sin, as it did in Isaac and his slowness to give the blessing to Jacob. Nevertheless, the author of Hebrews focuses not on the shortcomings of the parties involved but on the faith of Isaac. Esau had given away his birthright long before then (see 25:29–34). Jacob and Rebekah were right that the blessing should have gone to Jacob, but they employed deceit to get it instead of trying to reason with Isaac. Isaac was ignoring the prophecy of Jacob’s primacy (see 25:23). He refers, of course, to the events described in Genesis 27, when Jacob and Rebekah conspired to prevent Isaac from giving to Esau the blessing Jacob deserved. In each case, he focuses on the blessings these patriarchs pronounced on their descendants.įirst, the author tells us that “by faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau” (Heb. Moving on in his survey of the exemplary faith of several old covenant saints, the author of Hebrews in today’s passage looks at key episodes from the lives of Isaac and Jacob, Abraham’s son and grandson, respectively.