TOPIC: YOU NEED GOD IN YOUR JOURNEY OF LIFE
Memory verse:-"The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. Now Rebekah had a
brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring. As soon as he had
seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell
what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels
near the spring. "Come, you who are blessed by the Lord,” he said. "Why are you
standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.” So the man
went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for
the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet. Then food was set before
him, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.”
"Then tell us,” [Laban] said. So he said, "I am Abraham’s servant. The Lord has blessed
my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle,
silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, and camels and donkeys. My master’s
wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
And my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son
from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, but go to my father’s family
and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’
"Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’ "He replied,
‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and make your
journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my
father’s family. Then, when you go to my clan, you will be released from my oath even if
they refuse to give her to you—you will be released from my oath.’ "When I came to the
spring today, I said, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant
success to the journey on which I have come. See, I am standing beside this spring; if a
maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, "Please let me drink a little water from
your jar,” and if she says to me, "Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too,” let her
be the one the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.
"Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder.
She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
"She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your
camels too.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels also. "I asked her, ‘Whose daughter
are you?’"She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’
"Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms, and I bowed down and
worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me
on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son. Now if you
will show kindness and faithfulness to my master tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may
know which way to turn.” Laban and Bethuel answered, "This is from the Lord; we can
say nothing to you one way or the other. Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her
become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed”
Life is a journey and it only takes the direction, help and the grace of God for such a journey to be successful. Every journey is made up of many and different roads and as mere mortals most of the time it is difficult for us to decide the right road to take. Abraham’s servant confessed that it was God who led him on the right path. We also need God to lead us on the right path. To take the right path or road we should not think that it is by academic intelligence or personal experience, no and big no!
Prayer:-pray that God will lead you on the right path of your destiny
pray against any hindrance of your success in life
What to meditate on:
If you were Rebecca without seeing your would-be husband would you have consented to go with the Abraham’s servant?
