Bibledoorajar Joins in the travel to Isaac

     The servant objected to Rebecca staying another ten days or so with her kindred in her country. Finally the family says well, okay, ask Rebecca. Again comes forth her famous "I will go." It was a brave thing indeed to decide to leave everything she had known before to pursue someone she was just beginning to know a little about. But then, the little she was finding out about this man and his family and his country was very intriguing. A man, Abraham, called to leave his country and kindred just as she was being called. A son born to Abraham and his wife long past regular childbearing years. Had she ever heard of anyone having a baby like that before? The baby had come because of a promise by God and not anything Abraham and Sarah did with their aging bodies.  A promise by God to this initiator, Abraham, that through him would come a great nation.  But then there came a request that Abraham sacrifice this very son from whom would come that great nation. Amazing.  And even more amazing was the report of how the son went willingly with his father without a word of protest. And then, God intervened in the process and Isaac lived. Rebecca did not have to be a "rocket scientist" to ascertain that something very powerful was going on. And the draw to go was "other worldly" too. Must have been a lot of astonishment on the part of Rebecca as she listened and traveled to that far land.

     The caravan drew near and Rebecca noticed a man out in the field. She asked the servant who the man was and he declared that he was Isaac the son of his master. Two things Rebecca already knew about this man she was fixing her gaze on and they were very important. This man, one, knew God, and, two, his life experiences had all been with his father doing only what his father did. He was everything to his father and he was helping his father establish a nation. Accepting this was critical to the process.

"The Son is the radiance of the Father, the very expression of God's essence, upholding all that exists by His powerful word; and after He had, through himself, made purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God. So He has become much better than angels, and the name God has given Him is superior to theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, 'You are my Son; today I have become your Father'?" Hebrews 1:3ff.

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in that wonderful face...." Helen Limmel