Genesis 26:12-22
When someone confronts you or is contentious toward you, what do you do?
Isaac is an excellent person to copy when faced with confrontation and contention.
Isaac sowed wheat and it produced 100 times what was planted. Farmers hope for such a harvest.
He became wealthy, he had flocks and herds and many servants. Isaac was the envy of his Philistine neighbors.
For all his livestock he needed water, so he had his servants dig a well. It was filled with dirt by his neighbors. The king told him to move. Isaac was too powerful to live where he was, so he took down his many tents and moved.
Again Isaac had a well dug where his father, Abraham, had dug a well years before. Again it was filled with dirt by the Philistines. He had another well dug, and the Philistines claimed that well as their own.
Another well was dug and the same thing happened, contention from the Philistines.
Isaac moved – it would not have been easy to move his household, his servants and livestock and start over – again!
Isaac did not look for trouble. He never confronted the ones who were contentious with him. He quietly dug another well. There was no contention after the last well he dug.
He said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.” Genesis 26:22
When you are confronted, how do you react? Are you contentious? Defensive? Or do you quietly dig another well?
God’s Word ~ Alive!
Matthew 5:9
“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be
called the sons of God”
How will you respond when faced with
confrontation or contention?