Health care is a great debate these days. In today's reading, we encounter some health issues. Isaac died at the age of 180 years according to Genesis 35:38. In the story of Jacob stealing Esau's blessing, the scene is very dramatic (as if Isaac will not live much longer) as Isaac must go by touch and sound instead of sight. He obviously was in poor health. How many years did his health decline? How much time passed between the blessing scene and his death? We know after Jacob leaves, he works for Laban fourteen years. Isaac's death happens after all these years plus some other transitions. At any rate...he lived a long time in declining health.
How is the meaning of life revealed through a father's health, blessing, and death? Obviously, in Genesis these passages are paramount in the meaning of life. We are so life consious we could learn a great deal from these passages recorded in Genesis.
Did you feel anything when Rachel died from complications of childbirth? How sad that death at childbirth was so common that only only two verses described the event..."And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son." As she breathed her last-- for she was dying she named her son Ben-Oni But his father named him Benjamin." How interesting in these times that the blessing of a son overshadowed a tragic death.
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