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Isaac's Wells

Finding Opportunities in a land of famine
By Ptr. Derrick Anselmo

We must understand, as Isaac does, that the blessing is not the thing or opportunity before us. The blessing is us. Isaac recognized that the blessing was not on the land that he planted on, but rather it was on him. That HE WAS THE BLESSING. He was the reason why opportunities continue to come even though others passed or were grabbed from him.



This is a season of “famine” in the Philippines. It is not a famine from food, but rather, a famine from opportunities. Filipinos are migrating to other countries for “greener pastures”. The ambition of every child is becoming synchronized to one beat which is “to go abroad when I grow up”. Even professionals, like doctors, engineers, teachers, uproot themselves from their local practice to work as caregivers, domestic helpers, foremen, or other blue collared position in another country, embracing less ideal situations for “opportunities”. And, sometimes, in an effort to grab an opening for gain, people would even step on others without conviction. People will go to such extent as to steal opportunities by falsifying documents and passports to be able to leave. “Survival of the fittest at all costs” and “each man for himself” have become more popular principles in life. Nobility is dying. Materialism is gaining grounds.

It is a time much like the time of Isaac, the promised child to Abraham, when they too had a famine in their region:

Genesis 26:1 – 6 ¹Now there was a famine in the land – besides the earlier famine of Abraham’s time – and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. ² The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. ³ Stay in this land for a while and I will be with you and bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. ⁴ I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed, ⁵ because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws.” ⁶ So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

It was a time like ours. Due to the famine, everyone was migrating to Egypt for better “opportunities” far away from the famine. But, in the middle of all that, God spoke to Isaac and discouraged him to go with the others to Egypt and asked him to stay at the place where he was at that moment, a place where he doesn’t belong either.

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