FAMILY FEUD - Week 4

Daily Scripture Readings

Monday          1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Tuesday          Song of Solomon 8:6-7

Wednesday   Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Thursday        Romans 12:9-12

Friday             Colossians 3:12-17

Saturday        Genesis 28:10-17

Opening Prayer

Gracious God, as we study the story of Isaac and Rebekah, help us understand the marriage you want us to have.

In Jesus’ name, AMEN

READING:

Isaac lifted up his eyes and saw the camels coming. Rebekah, sitting on one of the camels, saw Isaac, and inquired who he was. Abraham’s servant responded that it was his master. Rebekah quickly got down from off her camel, and modestly veiled herself as she came to meet the man who would shortly become her husband. Abraham’s servant told Isaac all that had been done, and Isaac very willingly accepted this beautiful young damsel as his wife.

I think it is noteworthy that we are told, after Isaac had brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent and had married her, that “he loved her.” It is a rare thing in scripture to find a marriage being described as a loving marriage. Yes, that is the ideal to which scripture always points; the Song of Solomon lavishes the highest encomiums upon marital love, and of course Paul, writing to the Ephesians, sets it forth as the great prototype of the love between Christ and His church. And yet, having said that, even in cases where two godly persons are married it is unusual to be told told that a man loved his wife. That is not to say others did not, but only to recognize that the very fact the Holy Spirit thought it worth remarking upon seems to indicate the strength of affection with which Isaac loved his bride. In her, he found not only a lifelong companion, but in her he finally found solace from his grief over his mother’s death. Long before the words were ever penned, Isaac proved to be true the words of Solomon, “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord.”

Samuel Ashwood