His Legacy
Genisis 24:3, ” and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,”
Abraham was getting old, and he was worrying about his legacy. His beloved wife Sarah had just died, and he knew in his heart that he was not long from the grave himself. Before he died he made his servant swear an oath with him that he would not marry his son Isaac to a woman of the Canaanites. He was concerned with keeping the bloodline pure. This might sound like a form of discrimination to us today, but in reality it is the best way of keeping a superior object from becoming tarnished. In our day and age it seems conceited to consider something that you have as better than something anyone else has. But Abraham knew that what he had came from God directly. He also knew that because of the “specialness” of what he had been given that he must protect it from harm or from being defiled.
This is an important lesson that we can learn from Abraham. You and I are pure; we have been cleansed by the blood of Christ. We are spotless before Him, but we are in a stained world. It is our job, our privilege, not to become stained, but to clean this world with His blood. The Bible says that we are the light and the salt of this world. We are told to open the eyes of people that live in darkness, and show them a way that their life can be preserved. We cannot preserve their life, but we are commanded to show them to the One who can. If we get watered down in our service, then we cannot serve others. That’s why the Bible tells us that we should seperate ourselves from the world because if we get involved with worldly concerns then we lose focus on heavenly things.
We are commanded by God not to associate with the things of this world. 2 Corinthians 6:14, “Do not be bound together with unbelievers ; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness ? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever ?”
This might sound to some people like we are trying to conceited, or stuck up. But God gives us this command, so that we can understand the importance of keeping His bloodline pure. However precious Abraham considered the bloodline given to him, by God, through Isaac the bloodline given to us, by God, through Jesus is infinitely more important because it is through the blood of Jesus that people are saved.
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Father, I thank You for giving me the precious bloodline of Your Son, and I ask that You would help me to preserve His legacy. In Jesus’ name, Amen
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