(Gen 24:67) Then Isaac brought her into
his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he
loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Isaac returns to the stage of history
with another one of his “the LORD will provide” experiences, but this time it
won't be a ram but a wife! His father had dispatched an envoy to Mesopotamia to
find a wife for his son. As Isaac went out one day toward the evening to
meditate in the fields, he spotted the entourage.
Once again he experiences a valuable
lesson that Yahweh will provide for him, not a ram this time but a wife! He
honored Rebekah by letting her reside in Sarah’s tent until the wedding. Isaac was
forty when he married Rebekah (Gen 25:20). He loved Rebekah so much that, unlike
the other patriarchs, he never knew another woman.
How beautiful a romance story is when God
is doing the choosing. It had been nearly three years since Isaac’s mother
died; he loved his mother and missed her terribly, but he did not mourn for her
in a morbid way as those with no hope. Had Rebekah refused to leave her
homeland to go to foreign soil to marry a man she never met, and she
certainly had that option for this was not a pre-arranged marriage, she would
have remained in obscurity.
But her family recognized this thing was
of Yahweh (Gen 24:50) and wisely left the decision up to her daughter
concerning the will of God for her life (Gen 24:57-58). The servant of Abraham who
was heading up the mission to find the woman God had in mind for Isaac reacted
with great jubilation; you might even say prophetically,
"May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants
conquer the cities of their enemies” (Gen 24:60, TEV)!
We will never realize on this side of
eternity the ripple effect of our decisions to obey God’s will for our lives.
But this we can know right now, “He who does the will of God abides forever” (1
John 2:17). What does this tell you about those who do not care about God’s
will? Isaac was no stranger in experiencing – Yahweh will provide. <><
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