FAITH CAPSULE: Obedience is like sowing good before God.
Genesis 27
In your new season, sow good to gain the attention of God.
A new season is a new beginning; allow the newness of God to answer for you with His grace to overtake your life.
In the past year, what does not represent God, that did not glorify God in your life, shall become permanently separated from having a place in your life as you engage the journey of a new beginning.
In a new season, sow good before God.
What one sows that produces good seed will gain the attention of God.
One who sows the seed of a lie will reap the fruit of deception.
It is worthy to live life as one who knows God because anything short of that is living a life of a lie.
Live life for God.
Know that it is the will of God to exist for Him.
God invests in all to live for His glory; however, creation extends so little to Him.
Working and not walking with God will not go far with God.
What is the best way to keep walking in line before God?
Leviticus 18:4 stated, “You shall observe My judgment and keep My ordinances, to walk in them. I am the Lord your God.”
To observe is to see, in the word of God, to receive and become living by the word of God.
Obedience to God is like one sowing good to reap good.
The son of Isaac (Esau) disobeyed his father by his violation of the word of God, which states, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you. (Exodus 20:12).
The Bible recorded the violation of Esau: “When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.” (Genesis 26:34-35)
Esau married against the direction of his father and mother.
The act of disobedience of Esau activated grief in the minds of his parents.
Despite the disobedience of Esau before his father (Isaac), he was called by His father, saying to him, “Now, therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.” (Genesis 27:3-4)
Isaac spoke to Esau with an assignment that was supposed to bless Esau.
The disobedience of Esau denied him the blessings of his father when Rebekah (mother of Esau and Jacob) re-assigned the blessing in place for Esau to Jacob.
Nothing can certainly change to reap good for sowing wrongly.
Prayer for today: Ask to live a life of obedience to the glory of God.