The life partner (Part 8)
In the seventh part, we saw that Abraham was clear to convince his servant who was skeptical. He said that it is God Himself who will send his angel to his servant to take a wife for his son (Genesis 24: 7).
Throughout the chapter, you will not see a verse which describes how the angel guided Abraham's servant, but he was present in the invisible world. When you walk through the will of God, the angel of God is with you even if you do not see him. Grace and divine protection are over you as long as you put your faith and your hope in the Lord, and He does it through invisible angels in the spiritual world.
Let us look closely to see how God guided Abraham's servant. He did not go by try and error but he understood that if the angel is invisible, it means that the work is done in the spiritual world. He then decided to pray and we see his prayer in Genesis 24: 12-14:“Then he prayed, “Lord, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master "
He did not want to be wrong and he asked for a sign. If you read verse 15 to 20, you will see that just after the prayer, Rebecca appeared but there were other girls. Abraham's servant asked her for a drink to test her and she gave him more than a drink, she also offered to give a drink to the camels exactly as he had asked in prayer. In verse 26, he concluded that God confirmed in showing him that he chose Rebekah as the future wife of Isaac. So he bowed down and worshiped the Lord.
Although everything was clear that God had chosen Rebekah as the future wife of Isaac, her family had to accept and Rebekah had to accept too. God can say Yes but the girl has to say Yes too. Even though the girl says Yes, according to the bible, her family must say Yes too. We will see that even the dowry is biblical. The mistake that some young Christians make is to believe that if God says Yes it is the end of the story but I know cases when God said Yes but the family said No. What to do in that case?
We must first understand that God respects your family which is the authority that he himself instituted. According to the bible, the father of the girl has authority over her and he can refuse you if he wants (1 Corinthians 7:37-38). So if the father of the girl does not want you, I advise you to step back and wait in prayer until God influences his heart. NEVER marry a girl against the consent of her family. If God has promised you, He is so powerful to convince and break any opposition against His will and the work is done in the spiritual world by means of your prayers.
In the ninth teaching, you will see that even though God said yes, it was also necessary that the family of Rebekah says yes and even Rebekah had to agree.
Chris Ndikumana
