Genesis 24:62-67
August 21st, 2010Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel and said to the servant, “Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
I do love the story found in Genesis 24. The ending is the best part “and he loved her”. Isaac loved Rebekah.
I guess I have several things that come to mind about this passage.
- I hope that that is what people will say about me. ”And Roger loved Nyssa” it’s true.. I need to live in such a way that when I die (if the Lord should terry) that the preacher man will say “He loved his wife, Nyssa”
- Just as Issac loved Rebekah, Jesus loves His church. This is just a picture. Marriage is just a picture. It points to something bigger. I guess marriage is not a end in and of it self.
- Also notice that they did not get a piece of paper from the government they did not have a priest pronounce them “man and wife”. Not even a wedding, and yet we are told that “she became his wife”. The piece of paper that Nyssa and my self have saying that we are married has as much power to make us husband as wife as the paper saying I was born at such and such a time and place makes me born. And the preacher who says “I now pronounce you man and wife” has as much effect as the doctor who will declare a person to be dead. No, I am not married to Nyssa because of some paper or because of some ceremony/celebration. I am married to Nyssa because God has united us in a one flesh relation ship that can never be broken until one of us dies.
I guess for me Genesis 24 points towards so much more. We have The Father, The Son and Holy Spirit all working together for the church. We can see love and marriage. It’s a great story of some of our first fathers in the faith and how in the everyday workings God can do great things.
