Rebekah A Marvelous Mate And Mother Series

marriage themselves. This does not mean the children of all good mates will never ruin

their own marriage, for this happens all the time, but it will not be because the lacked a

good example. Rebakah gets an A for her role as a good example. God knew all along

when He guided Abraham's servant to choose Rebekah to be the wife of Isaac. He was the

unique son of promise and needed a special wife, and Rebakah was God's choice for him.

God's plan to bring His son into the world depended a great deal upon sensitive

mothers. Mothers seem to have a greater sense of which of their children are most likely

to be God's choice. Abraham would have give his blessing to Ishmael, and Isaac would

have given his blessing to Esau. But it was the mothers choices who were the ones God

chose. A mother's choice is more likely to be the choice of God. Isaac was in favor of

Esau because he was so macho. He was rough and tough, and a man of nature. He was a

mighty hunter who could live off the land in its wild state. Jacob was more of the

domesticated type. He had his garden and animals, and was more of a home body. He was

gentle and tender, and far more romantic than Esau. He was mom's favorite, and God's

as well, for God's Son was going to be more like Jacob than Esau.

God uses both types of men, for the greatest man of the Old Testament was John the

Baptist and he was the rough and tough man of nature. God uses all types to play a role

in His kingdom, but the star role goes to the Star of Jacob, who was the Messiah. He

would be more like a mother's favorite. Mary was the chief influence in the life of Jesus,

for Joseph died and she raised Him as a single parent.

God says some powerful things about mothers in His Word. There is just no escaping

the evidence. They are the key tools God uses to determine the course of history. The

hand that rocks the cradle rules the world is not a superficial cliche, but is supported by

God's revelation, and no where is it seen more clearly than in the life of Rebekah. Let's

look at some of the details of her life that are almost trivia that reveal just how a mother

can be used of God to make a difference in the world. First we see-

I. REBEKAH WAS A GOOD COOK.

This whole story revolves around tasty food, and if Rebekah could not have made a

goat to taste like wild game she never would have been able to pull off her plan. But she

was confident she could make a meal fit for a king that would please Isaac, in verse 17

states that she also made bread. Here we get a picture of the old time country kitchen

with homemade bread and a pot of stew.

This image is radically changed in our day, and the majority of Americans will be

eating out on this Mother's Day, or sometime this week. The home is not the center of

eating as it once was, but it is still the place where mothers need to provide their family

with pleasurable experiences around food. Rebekah had no choice. She had to learn to

be a good cook. Today, mothers do not have to because there are alternatives galore