Honey From The Rock

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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
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THE FAITH BRIDE

This entry was posted on 03-01-2010 and is filed under STUDIES IN GENESIS.

"Then they called Rebekah and said to her, 'Will you go with this man?' And she said, 'I will go.'" (Gen. 24:58 NKJV).

Here is one of the most remarkable stories of faith in all the Bible. Abraham's faithful servant has traveled back to his master's ancestral homeland in search of a bride for Abraham's son, Isaac. He prayed that God would show him which woman it would be and before his prayer was even finished it was also answered, Rebekah showed up to water his camels (vs. 12-21). After giving her some nice jewelry, Abraham's servant is invited to her home. Rebekah's brother, Laban, greets the servant and invites him for supper. But the servant will not eat a bite until he first tells his story. So he tells them the whole story of the son of promise, Isaac, and how Abraham wanted him to marry someone from his homeland. He also told the family about how God had answered his prayer. The story impressed both Laban and Bethuel (Rebekah's father), who considered this to indeed be the will of God.

Early the next morning the servant was up and ready to return to his master with the bride he had secured for Isaac. The family wanted Rebekah to stay ten days before she left them (a natural and reasonable request), but the servant would hear nothing of it. So they put the question to Rebekah, and her answer is our text for the day: "I will go." Is that amazing or what? Then Rebekah and her maids accompany the servant back to Abraham's land where she will wed Isaac. Now think of this with me. Here is a girl, probably still in her teens, who meets a total stranger, draws water for his camels (probably 200 gallons), takes him home to dinner, and decides the next morning that she will leave her family and return with this man, whom she has only known for 24 hours, to marry a man she has never met. She leaves her family, never knowing if she will ever see them again, and travels by camel ("ships of the desert") perhaps some 500 miles across trackless deserts and cold mountains. If that isn't faith, I don't know what would constitute faith! In fact, I am surprised that Rebekah is not included in the heroes and heroines of faith in the great faith chapter of the Bible (Hebrews 11). "I will go." So what is keeping you from going on an exciting faith journey for God?

Hymn: "It may not be on the mountain's height, or over the stormy sea; it may not be at the battle's front my Lord will have need of me: But if, by a still small voice, He calls to paths I do not know, I'll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in Thine, I'll go where you want me to go." (Mary Brown)