September 18, 2016 - Isaac Marries Rebekah

TONY & MICHELLE PAWLAK

MEMORY VERSE

He who finds a wife finds a great good; he has won the favor of the Lord. 

Proverbs 18:22

Mawridgde...Mawridge is what bwings us togevah today.  Yes, this week we discussed a marriage that happened a long time ago with Abraham's son, Isaac. We know from last week that Isaac's mother, Sarah, was 90 years old when Isaac was born.  When Isaac was 37 years old, Sarah passed away at the age of 127. 

Isaac's father, Abraham, knew that his son needed to be comforted.  He decided that it was time for Isaac to get married.  However, Abraham did not want Isaac to marry a Canaanite woman.  He decided to send his servant back to his homeland to find Isaac a wife from his own people. 

So the servant, along with some other servants and 10 camels, made the long journey to the Chaldeans.  The servant began to wonder how he would know which girl to choose so he decided to ask God. He asked God to send the woman that He chose for

Isaac to him. He would know it was her if she gave him a drink from the well and then watered all of his camels (and camels can drink a lot!).

As he waited by the well, a beautiful girl came by named Rebekah.  The servant asked her to get him a drink. She said, "I will draw water for your camels also,

until they have finished drinking."  (Genesis 22:19)  She then went back and forth to the well until all the camels had all the water they wanted.  Seeing this, the servant knew that this was the girl that God has chosen as a wife for Isaac.  After this, the servant gave Rebekah two gold bracelets and (no joke) put a gold ring in her nose! 

Rebekah then invited the servant back to stay with her family.  There he met her brother, Laban, and told her family about how God had led him to Rebekah and why Abraham had sent him.  This made the family happy but the final decision was Rebekah’s.  She agreed to go with the servant and become the wife of Isaac. Rebekah

then traveled back to Canaan with the servant to meet her new family and future husband.  Once there, she met and married Isaac.  Having Rebekah as his wife comforted Isaac after his mother died. Today, God still wants us to find a husband or wife that He chooses for us.  Marrying the right spouse who loves God will make all the difference when we want to live for Him.  Also, Just like with Isaac and Rebekah, a husband and wife are to be there to comfort and encourage each other in the hard times as well as in the good times.