The teaching came from the entire chapter of Genesis 24. I will just type out whatever i've internalized and remember.
Genesis 24
New King James Version (NKJV)
A Bride for Isaac
24 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.Note: The LORD had blessed Abraham in ALL things, not just in health, in relationships, but in finances as well. So we don't have to be ashamed that we want to be blessed financial.
2 So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please, put your hand under my thigh,
Wooahh woahh ok let's stop here. Put your hand under my thigh?!!! that is enough, that is just sick. I ain't putting my hand under your thigh. Ok before we jump to it, what it really meant back then in those days is such act is a covenant making act and a humbling one.
3 and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; 4 but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Abraham told his servant to find a wife for his son but not one from Canaan which is the promise land to him and Canaan was still filled with people idol worshiping so none of the girls from there would do as they will eventually turn his son away from God and worship their many idols.
Same applies to us, it's highly advised that we do not be tied up with non-believers as they would eventually turn us away from God and towards whatever they worship-money, fame, glory, career etc.
5 And the servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?”
Now this servant thought out of a contingency plan even before heading out. Isn't that like what we usually do? When God tells us to do something, we think of but what if it fails, what if i didn't really hear from God, what if this and that. We end up not taking any action because we are stuck at the stage of thinking it out. Not that it is wrong to think things through, in fact it is good just that we often don't get to the action and just continue to think things through.
6 But Abraham said to him, “Beware that you do not take my son back there. 7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants[a] I give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. 8 And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back there.” 9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Stay in the land. The land is your promise place, your position. Your position in Him. Don't wander out of position from Him. Don't find your mate outside of His positioning, His covering, His wings. Another word don't find your mate who don't believes in Him, who don't fear Him. Because if you do so, sorry mate your on your own now.
Issac was said to be around 40 years old at this point of time and according to the times back then you have to be married before 30 years old. So Issac was 10 years behind time. He was in a desperate position and needs to be married ASAP. We are like that too. "I'm not getting any younger and i'm still single and if i don't get attached or married soon i will be left on the shelf. Fret not there is still hope.
The thing is that God promised to Abraham. So whenever you feel like your all alone etc just remind yourself that but God promised me. If He promised you something, He will bring it to pass.
10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, for all his master’s goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
To go after a woman is not cheap, isn't that true? He took ten of his master's camels together with the goods to what? To offer to the wife to be.
11 And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water. 12 Then he said, “O Lord God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. 13 Behold, here I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. 14 Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
We often think that it's spiritual to just sit and wait for God to provide and send the right person our way. Isn't that what we do? We say it's ok i'll just wait for God to show me, wait for God to send her/him my way. Well you can carry on waiting for the rest of your life and still be single and say "well it's God's will if it's His will He will send him/her my way".
What God wills doesn't always happen? It's not His will that anyone should perish and that all to be saved but is that what is happening? No, people are perishing every single day. We are called to be partners with Him to bring about His will. Co-laborers. Labor what? Means you have to do something and put lots of blood and sweat into it.
Is there such a thing as the only one who's meant for you to marry? No!
Because think of it this way, if there is really a thing of the only one for you. All it takes is just a single person who made the wrong choice to marry the wrong person and guess what? The right person will marry another wrong person and on and on and the whole balance of the universe is off.
The servant positioned at the well with his camels. What did he do? He positioned himself. He didn't wait for God, he positioned himself to receive. And at where? The well where the girls goes to draw water from. As mentioned before you need to position yourself to receive and it have to be under His covering. You don't find your mate outside of church. Where you position yourself is important. You don't find a mate from the club, from the pubs, from the streets etc. You would get a mate but not one who is right.
There's more to the sermon but i'll just stop here. If you need more of it you have to ask me and i can share with you :) tata
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