Genesis 26:1-11
What causes you to lie? Is it the fear that something bad will happen if you don’t lie?
Lies many times come from fear. Fear of the consequences.
One story, which really happened many long years ago, is of Isaac lying because he was afraid for his life. He and Rebekah, his wife, lied about being husband and wife. A severe famine had come to where they were living so they moved into hostile territory.
There Isaac told the lie to the king, and the king took Rebekah into his harem. They told the king they were brother and sister.
Isaac’s fear of being killed for his beautiful wife was real.
While they were living in the hostile land, Isaac and Rebekah were found caressing each other. The king heard and called Isaac out. ‘How can you say Rebekah is your sister?’ Isaac replied, ‘I might die on account of her.’ The pagan king correctly assessed the situation and said, ‘You would have brought guilt upon us, if one of my men had laid with your wife.’
The LORD became involved in this situation, for He told the pagan King, ‘No man is to touch her and if they do, they will be put to death.’ God had a plan, and nothing thwarts God’s plans. Fear-filled lies, wrong actions, or anything else will never stop God’s plans from happening.
For through Isaac, the son of Abraham, and then Jacob, the Messiah would be born hundreds of years later. God protected His Son from Isaac and Rebekah’s foolish fear-filled lies.
God’s Word ~ Alive!
Matthew 1:2, 16
“Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob
and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
“Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary
by whom Jesus was born,
who is called the Messiah.”
Fear-filled lies are to be avoided
1 John 2:21
“I have not written to you because you do not know the truth,
but because you do know it,
and no lie is of the truth.”