Genesis 24:63-67–Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation

Posted by Seth on Feb 8, 2010 in Bible Study, Daily Devotions |

Genesis 24:63-67–Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation

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Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 24:63-67 where we observe a bit of true romance, if we’re willing to accept it as such.

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel and said to the servant, “Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

We may have a difficult time today recognizing true romance even when it’s staring us in the face. Our minds have become filled with everything false, hokey, unrealistic, and, well…Hollywood. But don’t miss the true beauty of this story; the entire chapter is a great read leading into a wonderful love story. We see here Isaac thinking and praying by himself in a field with the setting sun on the horizon. His mother is gone and his father has sent his servant to find a God-fearing wife for him. He hopes that she is as pretty as his mom was. Rebekah’s life has taken a great turn, a young girl living at home who is with little warning willingly traveling to meet for the first time her husband-to-be. God has clearly been directing the process of their coming together, making her both excited and nervous about what lies ahead. They lay eyes on one another, and Rebekah wants to know the identity of the loan figure approaching in the distance. Neither of them have garbage to work through from past relationships or strange expectations that they must struggle to put aside; they simply come together and are married. We read then that Isaac loved her and see from clear examples later that she loved him as well.

Now someone might read this and figure that I’m in favor of arranged marriages and women keeping veils on their faces. But that’s not the point I’m seeking to make at all by calling this a great romance. I believe this is a wonderful love story because it’s filled with mystery, modesty, suspense, beauty, patience, and God motivation. But we don’t see many movies made with such elements. We would rather perpetuate all the wrong ideas of a man and a woman coming together as one while earning a buck in the process. It’s not working toward the production of anything good, but the lust monster just never gets full, a tyrant we’d rather ignorantly feed than sensibly shoot down.

Some stories are meant to give us pause and lead us to think more carefully about whether or not we’re seeing things from God’s perspective or have gotten sucked into the world’s ideas. Like Isaac and Rebekah, are we looking for God’s direction as we engage in or look toward romance? Do we listen to and learn from Him as the designer of such a wonderful and dangerous thing, or have we been entertained and informed by something else? Yes, this realm might be a bit more complicated today, but mostly it still has to do with the choices we make and the resolves we’re willing to keep or disregard. Let’s turn the light onto the lust monster to expose him for what he really is and kick him out the door to starve. We need to take Jesus’ words seriously that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:28). Ask God to make you into the kind of romantic that is far more wonderful and blessed than the cheap idiocy flashing across the TV and computer screen. Kill the monster today.

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