The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Genesis 24:12-20,
“Then he prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, give me success 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 girl, “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’… After she had given him a drink, she said, ‘I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have finished drinking.’ So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.”
After doing a little investigation I have found that camels can drink up to 20 gallons of water at a time. The account tells us Abraham’s servant had 10 camels with him, so when Rebecca watered the camels she packed potentially 200 gallons of water up out of the well, or ¾ of a ton of water: 1,600 lbs!
While this is an interesting piece of information, my point is that this is one very dramatic account of what took place when Abraham sent his servant to find a wife for Isaac. Rebecca was quite a girl. The account to me is just fascinating. Abraham tells his servant the Lord will send an angel ahead of him to provide success for the mission. The servant asks the Lord to demonstrate who he has chosen for Isaac by having the girl offer to water the camels. Clearly the angel has provided success!
While I don’t anticipate such dramatic events in my life, I nonetheless note that the Lord has made provisions for success for me as well… “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.” 2 Peter 1:3-4. I suspect I would be just astonished to know in how many ways the Lord has provided for success for me in this life in very personal ways. I suspect we would all be!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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