SPIRITUAL DIARY For 10-17-2006
My Worship Time Focus: The Family
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Genesis 24:29-49
Message of the verse: “29 Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring. 30 When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, ‘This is what the man said to me,’ he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. 31 And he said, ‘Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?’
32 So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. 33 But when food was set before him to eat, he said, ‘I will not eat until I have told my business.’ And he said, ‘Speak on.’ 34 So he said, ‘I am Abraham’s servant.
35 ‘The LORD has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys. 36 ‘Now Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has. 37 ‘My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live; 38 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ 39 ‘I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman does not follow me.’ 40 ‘He said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house; 41 then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my relatives; and if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’ 42 ‘So I came today to the spring, and said, ‘O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I go successful; 43 behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar’; 44 and she will say to me, ‘You drink, and I will draw for your camels also’; let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.’
45 ‘Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’ 46 ‘She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.47 ‘Then I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him’; and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists. 48 ‘And I bowed low and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son. 49 ‘So now if you are going to deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, let me know, that I may turn to the right hand or the left.’”
This is a long story in a very long chapter and the emphases is on the servants master and also on the master’s son, and of course on Rebekah, the hopeful bride to be.
Rebekah’s brother Laban is also in the story, and he shows the kind of man that he is, a man that is very much interested in the riches of the master’s servant, but probably not interested in the master at all.
The bidding of Abraham’s servant is a picture of the Holy Spirit working in the life of a person, calling him to the Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ. The servant only speaks of his master and he gives gifts as a down payment to the bride to be, and tells her of the riches of his master. He does not pressure her, but only tells the facts, and this is how I am to wittiness to a person too, only telling them the facts and then allowing the Holy Spirit to do His work of conviction in the heart of the person that I am witnessing to.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I have a propensity to be impressed with people who seem to be rich in this life, and not so impressed with people who will be rich in the next life, and this has gotten me into trouble on more that one occasion. My Master in heaven is richer by far than any person is or ever will be on this earth, and I must think of that and not on being rich in this life, where I probably would not be able to handle it, as I have proven in the past with the little that I had be entrusted with. It is better to be like Abraham’s servant who only had a desire to serve his master.
The Word of God has been convicting to me as I read and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith Today: To trust the Lord to continue to teach me contentment, and not to be so concerned with the riches of this world. To trust the Lord to direct my path, and to also make me a better servant of His.
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