SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10-27-2006
My Worship Time Focus: The Welcome of the Bridegroom
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Genesis 24:61-67
Message of the verse: “61 Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.62 Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the Negev. 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming. 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel. 65 She said to the servant, "Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "He is my master." Then she took her veil and covered herself. 66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.”
Rebekah leaves with the servant on this long journey of about one month riding on a camel. She takes her maids and nurse with her as she goes to meet her husband.
Again this is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ and His bride, the Church and so that is the way I will look at this. Isaac had not been written about since he was in his teenage years where he was going to be a willing sacrifice offered to the Lord by his father Abraham. This pictures the Lord Jesus Christ going back to heaven after His sacrifice on the cross.
The bride, Rebekah, sees Isaac from afar and prepares to go and meet him. The believers of the Church are also to prepare to meet the Bridegroom as they live their lives in obedience to the Lord while on this earth. The servant give an account of his journey in verse sixty-six and the believers will also give an account to the Lord at the judgment seat of Christ.
Isaac takes Rebekah into the tent which the Lord Jesus will do as he takes home his bride at the rapture of the Church, and so we will ever be with the Lord.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Just as Rebekah was obedient to her husband in coming to him and just as the servant was obedient in all that he did for his master Isaac, so I am to be in my service to the Lord so that when He comes for me that I will be able to give a good report of the things that I did for him while in the flesh on this earth.
The Word of God has been both a challenge to me and also it has been convicting to me as I read and studied it this morning.
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