Genesis 24
It was near night when a man with ten camels stopped to rest by a well outside a far east city. All were tired and thirsty and had come many miles on an important errand: this was to choose a wife for the master’s son, Isaac. But the servant did not know how to find her, so he prayed to God that it should be the one who would give him and the camels water to drink.
Just then a young woman, named Rebecca, came with her pitcher and drew water. The man asked for a drink; she quickly gave to him, and offered to draw water for the camels also. She filled her pitcher many times, and turned the water in the troughs for the camels. The servant wondered at her kindness, and felt she was the one to be the wife of Isaac. He gave her presents and asked for her father.
She then hurried to tell her family, and her brother came to the well and invited the man to their house. He went, and asked that Rebecca might return with him. They were willing she should go in a few days; but the very next morning the man wanted to start back so they asked Rebecca if she would go, and she said, “I will go.”
So she and her maids and nurse rode on camels following the servant to the land where Isaac lived. One evening Isaac saw the camels coming and walked to meet them. He was very much pleased with Rebecca, and she became his wife.
If you read the second verse of Genesis 15, you will learn the name of the servant of this story, and if you read Genesis 35:88But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. (Genesis 35:8) you will learn the name of Rebecca’s nurse.
This is a picture to us of God sending the Holy Spirit down into this world to choose out a Bride for His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, composed of all the saved people, to live with Christ forever.
ML 08/16/1936