Genesis 24:66 Commentary - Dr Peter Masters

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Genesis 24:66

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The servant relates to Isaac all the wonderful detail of the Lord’s guidance. It is undeniable that Rebekah is the wife of God’s choice. How could Isaac hesitate to embrace her and to love one who had been so conspicuously provided by the Lord? Though the circumstances of their being brought together were most unusual, it was enough that God’s hand was in it.Isaac took her to be his wife. He at last gets to choose. They are joined together in marriage and all this is contained in the simple statement that Isaac took Rebekah and she became his wife. Isaac took her into the tent of his mother Sarah who had been dead about 3 to 4 years. That tent had remained for Isaac the place where his mother had lived, a place where kindness and love had been shown to him by one whom, even now, he sorely missed. In his mind he connects the tenderness of his mother whom he has lost with the feminine care of this new young woman who has come into his life and he attaches his feelings to her with great intensity and loves her. He was made to need the affection and kindness of a woman in his life and found it abundantly in Rebekah.

Application

Isaac was 40 years old when Rebekah became his wife. Some panic if they are still unmarried when they are over 22, but Isaac was not panicking. Any sense of panic must be countered with faith. The Lord knows what his will is for our lives, whether we should marry or not. If so, he has a chosen person for us and he makes no mistakes. Care is the watchword. Believe that there is a partner from the Lord, and be ready to be devoted to one another. It is plain to Isaac that this is of the Lord. Another step in the fulfilment of the promise to Abraham has been taken.

Ephesians 5:32 teaches that marriage is a picture of Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:25 tells us that the basis of this relationship is love. Marriage comes about because of love; it must be present. Consider Christ and his church. When we are saved, Christ comes out to us, seeks us, touches our hearts, but we were not inclined to him at first. He must draw us to himself. There is a place therefore for young men and women doing something to seek a partner. We are not to panic, but that does not mean we have nothing to do. You want to seek the Lord’s chosen partner for you, but be very careful in the way you go about it. There is a balance between being guided by the Lord and taking the necessary steps to find a spouse.

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