SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10-16-2006
My Worship Time Focus: God Answers Prayer
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Genesis 24:15-28
Message of the verse: “15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. 16 The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up. 17 Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar.’ 18 She said, ‘Drink, my lord’; and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink. 19 Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, ‘I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking.’ 20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels. 21 Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the LORD had made his journey successful or not. 22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold, 23 and said, ‘Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father’s house?’ 24 She said to him, ‘I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.’ 25 Again she said to him, ‘We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in.’ 26 Then the man bowed low and worshiped the LORD. 27 He said, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.’ 28 Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.”
Even though it is not always a good idea to put God to the test by putting out a “fleece,” however that is how it happened in this case and Abraham’s servant was thankfull that the Lord had answered his prayers.
It seems that the servant was looking at Rebekah to see if she would make a good wife for Isaac, but asking her for a drink and then finding out that she would also water his camels. There were ten camels and it is possible that she had to draw at least 400 gallons of water to water all of his camels, so that would mean that she was not only a strong girl, but also she was dedicated too.
The servant then asks about her family and finds out that she was indeed the daughter of Abraham’s brother Nahor, and that means that she would be acceptable to Abraham, for he wanted a girl from his family to marry Isaac.
In verses 27-28 the servant began to praise the Lord for his kindness for making his journey a successful one, and for leading him to the daughter of Abraham’s brother, and finding a wife for Isaac. He did this right away, not forgetting to show thankfulness to the Lord who was the One who gave him success in his journey.
Let me say that the Law had not been given for Israel was not a nation at this time and so some of the things that happened before the Law were ok to do. I don’t mean that it was alright to murder someone, but things like marrying a cousin which Rebekah was to Isaac was certainly ok to do, for after all Abraham was married to his half sister. Once sin came into the world in Genesis chapter 3 the world was going through what I like to call de-evolution, that is things were getting worse as the years past. The gene pool began to continually get worse and worse in humans, animals, and also the ground that crops were grown in.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Dr. Wiersbe quotes an unnamed writer in his book, which seems to have a great deal of meaning for this section of Scripture: “Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell when someone may be taking your measure for a larger place.” This is exactly what the servant was doing to Rebekah and she did not realize it and therefore was acting in her normal way, not really trying to impress this man, yet that is exactly what she was doing.
I have thought about this on a number of occasions, in my relationship with the Lord, as I never know exactly what it is that the Lord has for me to do, or who that I may be doing it with, and it is always a good idea to live my life so that it will be pleasing to the Lord.
The Word of God has been a challenge to my heart and also it has been refreshing to me as I read and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith Today: I have been waiting for the next step in this long test from the Lord to take place, and it seems now that it is in the hands of a judge or justice in Toronto Ontario, Canada, who must decide whether or not Andrew Lech will be allowed to get out of jail to prepare for his criminal case, and then hopefully, have the time to get the money together to pay back his investors and thus purge himself of any wrong doing. It has been over three and a half years since we have received any money from these investments, and it has been three and a half years of learning to trust the Lord and hopefully growing in the Lord, realizing that my trust should be in the Lord who gives good gifts and not the good gifts that the Lord has given to me. I continue to trust the Lord in this trial, yet I must admit that it would surely be a let-down if things did not work out at this time, for Ann has said she does not know where to go from here is this does not work out. My prayer is that justice will be served to David Mackenzie in this case for the part that he has played in all of this, and that I would continue to grow in the Lord and trust His promises and not the circumstances around me.
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