We have seen that God is with you

But they said, "We have certainly seen that the LORD is with you. So we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you, - Genesis 26v28

There is always a reason for our trials and difficulties. Part of understanding this is the realisation that life is not all about us. The world does not revolve around our perspective of things.

As we saw yesterday Isaac had been run out of the land of Gerar but God kept on blessing him. They went out and dug up the old wells and watched God meet their needs. One day the Abimelech’s men came out to see him. Isaac asked them why there were still coming after him. ‘We have seen that the Lord is with you,’ they said, ‘let’s make a covenant with each other.’

We looked at a verse in our Bible study Sunday night. ‘When a man’s ways please the Lord even his enemies will be at peace with him.’ This incident gives us a perfect example of this truth. Isaac and his people did the work of digging up the wells, God blessed them, and their testimony was clear. When the people saw it they wanted to be at peace with God’s people. They do there was something different and they wanted part of it. They knew that God was with them.

What do people around us see in our difficulties? Do they see a testimony of faith and reliance or do they see a life of despair? Our testimony is vital. Are we living the kind of lives that people around us can say, ‘We have certainly seen that the Lord is with you?’