Our Humorous Side

TODAY'S READING: Gen. 23,24; Luke 9

SCRIPTURE: Gen. 24:12-21 (emphasis added)
¹² Then he prayed, “O LORD, God of my master Abraham, give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. ¹³ See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. ¹⁴ May it be that when I say to a girl, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

¹⁵ Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor. ¹⁶ The girl was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever lain with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

¹⁷ The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”

¹⁸ “Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

¹⁹ After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have finished drinking.” ²⁰ So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels. ²¹ Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful.

OBSERVATION: This cracks me up. The servant prays and God answers him with the exact sign he prays for but he still has to watch closely to see if God had answered his prayer!

APPLICATION: I think God put this story in the Bible to show us how we all are. I can think of many times I have done the same thing. Why are we so thick? How clear does God have to be? I need to learn to take a "yes" from God without questioning whether I've got a "yes" (or a "no" for that matter). We must give God quite a chuckle sometimes with our silly little doubts and questions.

PRAYER: Father, thank you for answering my prayers so faithfully. May I learn to not question as much as I do and to trust your word and your faithfulness to answer when I call and ask for wisdom. You have never failed me. Why would I ever think you would? In Jesus' Name, Amen.