Not Given but Taken

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Genesis 24  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 12
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Gen. 24
When the servant spoke of Isaac to Rebekah, unfolding his beauty, his riches, and the promises of which he was the exclusive heir, she felt an irresistible awakening of her affections, and loved Isaac already in her heart. It was not so much that she was giving her heart to an unseen and unknown Isaac, as that he had taken it. It was thus before I knew Jesus; I felt it hard, impossible, to give Him my heart; but when the Spirit of God opened up the knowledge of Him to my darkened understanding, revealing His beauty, His riches, intimating that all who believe are "joint heirs" with Him in His inheritance, I had no further thought of giving my heart for He had naturally and designedly taken it.