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Isaac Saw the Ultrasound but We Hold the Baby

Prior to meeting the woman who would become his wife and help him populate the genealogy of the ‘seed’, we see the patriarch Isaac retiring to seclusion in a field.  And what do we learn that he is intending on doing?  The text informs us that he is headed out “to meditate.”

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening…(Gen 24.63a)

I find the inclusion of this fact very interesting.

What might Isaac be meditating about?  Of course we run headlong into subjectivity as we speculate, but I cannot help myself.

After all he is the son of the beloved father Abraham, who is called “the man of faith” in the Scriptures (Gal. 3.9).  You can envision him musing upon unwavering kindness of God to his father.  How God had seen fit to call him from Ur to serve him and be the recipient of the glorious promise to bless the nations (Gen. 12.3). I cannot imagine a day could have gone by where Isaac did not revisit that jaw-dropping scene on Mt Moriah several years before (Gen. 22).  Abraham marched resolutely up that mountain with unshakable confidence in the promise that God would fulfill his promise to Abraham through his one and only son.  Imagine the emotion that would have accompanied the sight of seeing your father raise the knife to slay you on the altar?  Isaac knew this emotion first hand.

As he saw all of these promises of God first hand being fulfilled in his midst he knew of God’s unwavering faithfulness in the future.  There is little wonder that Isaac retreated to the field for some time to revisit the faithfulness of God.

But Isaac saw the promises of God in the first trimester, if you will, of their overall gestation and we now are holding the baby.  Isaac basically saw something of an embryo of these promises, it was still cause for marvel, but friends we have seen this come to near fruition!  How much more amazed, overcome, thrilled, joyful, thankful, passionate, motivated should we be now?    We have seen the seed come.  We know of the fountain of blessing.  We know of the means of the blessing.  We know firsthand of how God has worked through history to bring about the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.  We know of how he is moving all things together to their culmination where Christ is all in all.  We know of all of this through the blessed Scriptures.

So today I am stirred by my the patriarch and his desire to meditate on the God of the promise and the promise of God.  Our God’s unwavering faithfulness to the children of his covenant is truly enough of a stimulant to my own heart today to cause me some time of personal seclusion, meditation, and worship.

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