ANSWERED PRAYER—BIG TIME!
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Opening Prayer
Mighty God, there is no one like you, no one who can meet my greatest need and yet attend to my smallest problem. Thank you for your loving concern and care for everything about me.
Read GENESIS 24:52—67
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Genesis
Genesis 24
52 When Abraham’s servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
53 Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.
54 Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
55 But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; then you may go.”
56 But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the LORD has granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master.”
57 Then they said, “Let’s call the girl and ask her about it.”
58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?I will go,” she said.
59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
61 Then Rebekah and her maids got ready and mounted their camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
62 Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
63 He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching.
64 Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel
65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
66 Then the servant told Isaac all he had done.
67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Reflect
Read Psalms 18:30a and 118:23. Describe ways God has shown you his perfect and marvelous works.Yesterday, we were reminded that Laban and Bethuel acknowledged, ‘This is from the Lord’ (v. 50). As if the unfolding story we have been reading isn’t proof enough of God confirming to Abraham’s servant that he was on the right track, in today’s verses we have more evidence of God’s sovereignty in all the circumstances.
Despite the tempting idea of a few final days with her family (v. 55), as far as Rebekah is concerned, it is never in question that she should accompany her future father-in-law’s servant back to meet her future husband. Her simple, positive response to a huge request is, ‘I will’ (v. 58). This would be echoed by Mary in her words to the angel in Luke 1:38.
It’s often with hindsight that we can see God at work. Here, for all concerned, God’s purposes were staring them in the face. The fact that Isaac loved Rebekah and was comforted after his mother’s death is yet another example of all that God was doing then and would do in the future for, and through, this family.
Apply
Grains of sand are still on the seashore, stars in the sky still shine! Praise God for his incredible promise to Abraham in Genesis 22:17, reiterated after his willingness to sacrifice Isaac. Now that Isaac is married, Abraham’s descendants will multiply. God is faithful!
Closing prayer
Lord, I praise you for the times when your answers to my prayers have been greater than I could have expected, offering more than I could have imagined.
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