The life partner (Part 6)
I will show you, based on a biblical example that if we are children of God, He wants to be fully involved in our life and we should consult Him in all decisions including marriage. I will talk about the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca and in the seventh part we will see that it is God Himself who chose Rebecca.
Let us read in Genesis 24: 1-4 “Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh. I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac”
Abraham is known as the father of the faith and all who believe in God should take him as an example with regard to faith. Isaac his son was at the age to marry and Abraham wanted to find a wife for his him. Abraham lived in Canaan but in sending his servant to find a woman for his son, he was clear in telling him not to take for his son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites but to go in his country and in his homeland.
Why such precision? Because the Canaanite girls had a different culture and especially because they worshiped idols and not the God of Abraham. If Isaac had married a Canaanite, his faith would be in danger because he would be influenced by his wife and their children would be confused. Therefore the children of God who are saved must marry men or girls who have the same faith. Even if you are both born again, it is very important to attend the same congregation having the same doctrine.
If you are a girl filled with the Holy Spirit and you marry a man who prays kneeling before a statue, it will be difficult for you to grow spiritually because you will spend years trying to convince him to worship God in Spirit and in truth, and your children will be confused. You believe that Jesus is the only mediator between God and men (1 Timothy 2: 5), but the man you want to marry believes that the saints or other ways can help us in our prayers; Even if he loves you, it will not change his spiritual convictions because faith does not act in his soul, but in his spirit.
The affection he has for you comes from the soul but his faith is in his spirit. Here I am particularly speaking to the Christian girls who are saved by warning them that love feelings can easily push them to make the wrong decision. That is why, before letting you take through feelings, rather take the time to pray to find out if it is the man that God has sent you because once in love, it is extremely difficult to walk back even if we find out that we were wrong.
In the seventh part I will show you that it is God Himself who chose Rebecca.
Chris Ndikumana
