Genesis 24.62-67

Now we are going to look at the last scene of the finding of Isaac's wife. We have seen the problem of finding a wife for him, the servant's faithfulness, God's sovereignty in the entire situation, as well as the purpose for God's blessing, so that the nations are blessed. Now we will see the solution to the problem.

⁶² Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev. ⁶³ He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching. ⁶⁴ Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel ⁶⁵ and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

“He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.

⁶⁶ Then the servant told Isaac all he had done. ⁶⁷ Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

My first inclination is to focus on verse 63, showing that if you want to get a wife, meditate in solitude and she will come. 

While that may be true for Isaac, I know it didn't work for me all through High school. 

But in all seriousness, there is not a ton in this passage to really dive into. The real climax of the story occurred in the previous passage where Rebekah and Laban agreed to be faithful to God. This is just explaining the result of the whole story. 

Man waits for woman, woman comes to man, man marries woman, and they live happily ever after. 

But when we look at the entire chapter as a whole, 24.1-66, what we see is God's fingerprints touching every aspect of the story.

God is going to work out his plan, no matter what. God has his fingers on Isaac and the servant and Rebekah and Laban. He directs and prompts and beckons each one to be faithful to him, so that he might bless the nations. 

And that is what he does with us. 

He guides us, he moves us, he whispers to us, and he beckons us to follow him every day of our lives. 

And now we  have one thing left to finish up the story of Abraham. Remember how we talked about Abraham's story transitioning from him to his offspring, that three things needed to happen. 

First, Sarah needed to die, and we saw that in chapter 23.

Second, a wife needed to be provided for Isaac so that Abraham's offspring would continue past Isaac. 

This occurred in chapter 24, the chapter which included four scenes and has taken us four days to finally get through.

Now we will look at one more passage to fully allow the transition to occur from Abraham to his offspring. And we will look at that tomorrow.