Thursday Reading: Genesis 24:42-46
Key Verse: Genesis 24:45
45 And before I finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her, Please let me drink.
Devotion:
This is the story of Abraham’s servant who was sent back to Abraham’s country to find a wife for Isaac. It is not a story of hatred between nations or races but a story of obedience and trust. Abraham was told that he would be a father of a nation of his own people, not him directly but his seed. Because God had told this to Abraham, he had to believe that it was true and because of his belief he knew that Isaac must find a wife from his own country people and not from the Canaanites where he was living at the time.
Abrahams trust in God was not the only one on show because the servant that he sent was a man of God too. His own faith in God was secure and without fault because he expected God to answer his prayer as he lifted it up. When you read this first at the beginning of this chapter you may be forgiven for thinking that Rebekah may have overheard his prayers but when he recounts the story to the woman’s family he shows us that this happened even before he finished speaking in his heart. This suggests to me that he prayed silently but from the heart knowing that he could trust God to answer.
So many times we lift up our prayers and think, will God answer them today? What we need to be doing is lifting up our prayers daily and trusting God to answer them in His best possible way for us. He has proven His love for us explicitly so we should be faithfully lifting our prayers and knowing that He is going to answer. When Abraham took Isaac up for a sacrifice, he trusted that God would supply a sacrifice before he had to take his own son’s life. He trusted God implicitly and was showing that by being willing to follow God’s request all the way. We need to trust God all the way and not just until the end of our prayers.
Points to Ponder:
What do you pray about?
Are you trusting God to answer?
