I Isaac Take You Rebekah

This is a big point not just for marriage but for life. God is holy and He desires us as His people to be pure and holy. When you accept Christ into your life your body becomes the temple of God. He dwells with you this is where you meet with Him. See it’s not just about Sunday but about everyday of your life that is when God wants to be with you. 1 Corinthians 6:19 asks, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”

Understand the huge change that took place in our relationship with God in the pages of the Bible. During the Exodus when God wanted to be with His people He gave them instructions on how to build a tabernacle in the wilderness, that they could know His presence was there. But now that Christ has come, now that our sins have been paid for, since we have been bought with a price, now things are different. God doesn’t just dwell in a building, He dwells within each of us. His disire is for His people to be pure, because He wants to be with us and God can not look at sins. You underant the imagry then as the New Testament authors begin to call us the bride of Christ. He wants us to keep our relationship with Him pure as we would our marriage. Also if we want our marriage relationship to be a reflection of the ultimate beauty of our relationship with God we must keep ourselves pure. It is in what we do, what we think, what we say all of it. Our body is a temple of the Lord we need to keep it pure in honor of the One who dwells with us there.

So Isaac let Godly people play the roles God gave them, there was a fleece before the Lord in an act of kindness, the girl that God sent was pure. But then also she was ready, we need to be ready when God wants to move in our lives. You’ll notice how quick this moves on her end. Yeah, for Abraham, it was years before he had a son, this is 40 years after that. So for Abraham this is a long term prayer, but we don’t know how long it’s been for her but I’m sure it felt like BAM! To her. The thing is that she was ready.

You think the steward is having a stressful day, how wierd is hers? She goes down to get water for the family, she’s doing her chores basically. Some random guy walks up and asks her for water. She’s nice enough to not only give him water, but also his camels, do you know how much water a camel can drink? Suddenly he’s giving her a gold nose ring, and gold bracelets, he’s talking about some guy named Abraham and asking to spend the night. The next thing you know her family is willing to give her away in marriage and she goes. This is a whirlwind. Sometimes it can feel that way when God moves in our lives. But God has always known His plan for us. He has known the timing, when we would be ready and what we can handle. If we want God’s best for our lives we have to be ready to move when he wants and we have to surround ourselves by people who are also ready to move. When the time came Rebekah was ready to go, her family was ready to move, Abraham was ready when he felt it was time, and the steward moved when he was told. We need to be ready when God moves and we need to be with people who are ready to move.