January 12

From: Daily Sacrifice By: Henry Allan Ironside

Genesis 27:46

“What good shall my life do me?”— Genesis 27:46⁴⁶And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? (Genesis 27:46).

IT was the querulous question of a troubled, dissatisfied mother who had been disappointed in her elder son’s marriage to two heathen women, and who felt that life would no longer be worth-while if her other son followed in the same way. But the question may well be taken up by everyone as we face the exigencies of our days. Life may indeed prove useless if Christ is ignored and God is neglected. The only life that is really worth-while is the life that is given to the Lord and lived to His glory.

“I would not dare to live another day

If Thou, O Christ, couldst fail.

Or should Thy prayers before Thy Father’s throne

Cease to avail.

But since I know that

Thou wilt be the same

Throughout eternity,

That I am kept by that same love

That purchased me;

And am persuaded that in Thee

I need not fall;

Since I committed unto Thee