12 Jan 2016; Gen 24-26

12 Jan 2016; Gen 24-26

12 Jan 2016; Gen

I spoke to a student and he poured out his childhood life to me. He told me the misfortune that befalls him and how he was mistreated by his father. He also relate how his classmate ganged up to bully him.

A point I took is that he do not wish to do well because even if he was to do well, he did not gain the praise of his father. But as a result, in a normal academic stream, led worse.

He did not want to go home as he wants to prolong the beating he receive at home.

He may seem ok, but with the baggage he carried, no wonder he contemplate suicide.

In the darkness, the hope is Christ. In Genesis, Abraham did not see the fulfillment, but the hope lies in a God that is eternal.

He gave all to Issac and to all his other children he give gifts and sent them away. Not sure if Abraham was a good father and how the other children feel. I guess children wanted love. A home without love, the children do not wish to be there.

It point me to stop nagging my Jo but to tell him and praise him for the little achievement he made. Not the case of high expectation, that praises can only be given.

Abraham gave gifts to his other children. That give them a start and therefore cannot claim any more inheritence. It is like the story of the prodigal elder son, that all that the father has belongs to him.

I remembered in UK, the Duke handed over the heir the inheritance. The other sons knew that they has no part in it.

It is therefore not the material pass down, but the love the father gives to the children when he is alive that is more important.