SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10-19-2006
My Worship Time Focus: The Willingness of the Bride
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Genesis 24:50-60
Message of the verse: “50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, ‘The matter comes from the LORD; so we cannot speak to you bad or good. 51 ‘Here is Rebekah before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has spoken.’ 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the LORD. 53 The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother. 54 Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arose in the morning, he said, ‘Send me away to my master.’ 55 But her brother and her mother said, ‘Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.’ 56 He said to them, ‘Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.’ 57 And they said, ‘We will call the girl and consult her wishes.’ 58 Then they called Rebekah and said to her, ‘Will you go with this man?’ And she said, ‘I will go.’ 59 Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men. 60 They blessed Rebekah and said to her, ‘May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them.’
As said in an earlier SD, this whole chapter is a picture of how the Holy Spirit works in the life of a person to become part of the bride of Jesus Christ, and so that is the way that I will look at this.
The decision was finally given to Rebekah as to whether or not she would go with Abraham’s master to become the bride of Isaac, and she chose to go and be his bride. Her family wanted her to stay with them for ten days or so, but the servant did not want there to be any delay. Dr. Wiersbe says, “That when the Lord is at work, that is the time to keep going.” If Rebekah would have said that she wanted to stay then this could have been a big mistake on her part, and she may have never gotten another chance, yet this is not how the Lord had this planned and so she did go to be Isaac and the rest is history.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The portion that I read in my devotional book this morning almost jumped off the page at me, and that is “That when the Lord is at work, this is the time to keep going.” This has much meaning to me, for God is surely at work in our investment problems, as seen by the result of the trial that took place last Thursday and the ruling that the judge gave in it, for this was an answer to prayer and I am praising the Lord today for his work in this trial that many of my friends are going through with me.
The Word of God has been refreshment to me as I read and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith Today: Continue to trust the Lord to work out His plan as far as how this trial will turn out, and to continue to as the Lord to teach me contentment through this trial, and throughout the rest of my life, for contentment is something that I surely need to learn. To ask the Lord to continue to direct my path.
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