Are you willing to be a "Rebekah?"

3/1/2019

This week’s Sunday school lesson is about Abraham getting a wife for Isaac. And as is my new custom, I researched different commentaries about the scripture that the lesson came from and found a very interesting chain of thought in The John Phillips Commentary Series. It goes into the area of how Genesis 24 is an example or preview in story format of the Bride of Christ.

It mentions that the “faithful servant” is an example of the Holy Ghost. We know that the Holy Ghost is part of the Triune Godhead; however, He is one that is not brought out to the front very much except in the book of Acts. Nevertheless, The Holy Ghost plays a major part in the fact that the “Church” is still around some 2,000 years later.

Abraham sent the servant on a long trip seeking something that was for his son. The Holy Ghost has been given the task of seeking a bride for the Son of God; Christians. We today are living examples of the faithfulness of the Holy Ghost in doing that task. When we listen to His small quiet voice and accept Jesus as our Savior, we start the journey toward our eternal home, Heaven.

If we stay close and follow the leading of the Holy Ghost, then we will make our way to the Bridegroom, Jesus, and we will make ourselves into the perfect bride for Him. We will have the same type of spirit that Rebekah had, one that was willing to do what was asked of her without any dragging of her feet but with a willing spirit.

How is your “spirit?” Is it one of willingness and joy to do God’s work? One that will step out wherever and whenever God says “go.” Just as the servant needed a woman to be willing to leave the safe haven of “home” and follow him into the unknown. So, today, God is looking for someone that is willing to go where God leads.

Are you that one?

C.I. Wilson