The third well: ACCUSATION (Genesis chapter 26 verse 21 KJV) "And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah."
Isaac had to dig another well, and again, it was contested. He named it Sitnah, which means “Satan,” or “accuser" or "hostility". This is the third level of relationship problems. At this point, the problem has gone from jealousy to arguing to accusation. The person involved in the test has now begun to actually spread things against your character and is slandering you to others for no reason. Issac was well aware of where strife can go and how far it can lead. He had been here before both relationally and geographically.
Gerar - meaning "lodging-place" – was a Philistine town and district in what is today south central Israel, mentioned in the Book of Genesis. Biblically, the town contains two of the three Wife-sister narratives. These record that Abraham and Isaac each stayed at Gerar, near what became Beersheba, and that each passed his wife off as his sister, leading to complications involving Gerar's Philistine king, Abimelech. This tells me that the city had a strong hold over it in which there was strife, so there was every evil thing, which included lying.
Did you ever notice how sin always demands an increase? It is interesting to me that Gerar means lodging place. If you ever want to get stuck and quit moving forward then accuse someone else. Let God be the just judge. Do not retaliate when others come against you because then you lower yourself to their level. Oh, and PS don't let the enemy push you to lie. Just do as Issac did and walk away and dig again. God will honor your efforts! We will see this tomorrow in our next well.
"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation." - Philip Massinger
Isaac had to dig another well, and again, it was contested. He named it Sitnah, which means “Satan,” or “accuser" or "hostility". This is the third level of relationship problems. At this point, the problem has gone from jealousy to arguing to accusation. The person involved in the test has now begun to actually spread things against your character and is slandering you to others for no reason. Issac was well aware of where strife can go and how far it can lead. He had been here before both relationally and geographically.
Gerar - meaning "lodging-place" – was a Philistine town and district in what is today south central Israel, mentioned in the Book of Genesis. Biblically, the town contains two of the three Wife-sister narratives. These record that Abraham and Isaac each stayed at Gerar, near what became Beersheba, and that each passed his wife off as his sister, leading to complications involving Gerar's Philistine king, Abimelech. This tells me that the city had a strong hold over it in which there was strife, so there was every evil thing, which included lying.
Did you ever notice how sin always demands an increase? It is interesting to me that Gerar means lodging place. If you ever want to get stuck and quit moving forward then accuse someone else. Let God be the just judge. Do not retaliate when others come against you because then you lower yourself to their level. Oh, and PS don't let the enemy push you to lie. Just do as Issac did and walk away and dig again. God will honor your efforts! We will see this tomorrow in our next well.
"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation." - Philip Massinger
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