Genesis 24 Devotional Bible Study

Genesis 24 Devotional Bible Study

 

Genesis 24 Chapter Summary 

Abraham did not want Isaac to marry a Canaanite. He sent his servant to get a wife for Isaac from among his own relatives. Abraham assured the servant that God would send his angel ahead of him to make him successful in his mission.

The servant arrived in the town of Nahor and stopped a the well. He prayed that if he asked a woman who came to the well to give him a drink, she would offer to water his camels as well. Then he would know she was the one God had chosen for Isaac. And that's exactly what happened! Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out and did exactly what he had prayed for.

 

Rebekah and her family agreed to the marriage, and she left with the servant the next morning. Isaac was pleased with Rebekah, and she was a comfort to him after the death of his mother Sarah.

 

 

Don’t Go Back There 

Abraham tells the servant not to take Isaac back to their old country. God had called the family out from there and was doing something new with them.

We can compare the old country with our old way of life. God has called us out of our sin and our old habits. We can’t go back to them. We might be able to pull someone else out of them, just as the servant did with Rebekah, but we can never go back and join them in that old way of life. 

 

Can’t Stand in God’s Way

God chose Rebekah to marry Isaac (verse 14), as is evidenced by the outcome of the servant’s prayer. God doesn’t choose who everyone is supposed to marry. This is the only time in Scripture we hear about something like that happening. But it did happen this time.

The question was, How was Rebekah and her family going to respond? Her father and brother said they couldn’t stand in God’s way (verse 50). Rebekah was also willing to follow God’s will on the matter (verse 58). 

What about us? When we see that God is directing us to do something, do we resist God’s will for our lives, or do we realize that He is God, that we ultimately can’t stand in His way, no matter what we do, and faithfully accept it?

God doesn’t make every decision for us, but when He does direct us to do something, He wants us to willingly obey, just as this family did.