Wednesday, January 9, 2008
More learning in Genesis
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Honestly, God has just seemed to be revealing SO much to me lately and has been nudging me to share....soooo.....even though it's not really very 'homesteadie'...I'll obey God. First , yesterday when I was reading where Abraham had sent his servant to go find a wife for Isaac.....(and I think I'm seeing a theme here, must be God needs me to see it!!).....the phrase "even the time women go out to draw water".... THERE it was again! Obedience. The women were in the place there were supposed to be, doing what they were supposed to be doing!!! and the servant found Rebekah!! What if she had decided to stay home that night and wash her hair? Or she was mad at one of her sisters and didn't want to do anything with her? Or decided to just be selfish and stay home and read a book or something? Or maybe she just didn't 'feel' like going?? Isaac would NOT have had a wife. It just literally smacked me upside my head! We are supposed to be in certain places doing certain things at certain times. And I guess we are supposed to read God's Word to figure out what that is!!! SECOND (and there's only two......for today!). In Gen. 25:20, it says Isaac was 40 y/o when he married Rebekah. The NEXT verse says "he intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren". Ok, I'm not a math scholar, but I'm thinkin' it might have taken a little while for this barren fact to dawn on them.....maybe a year? So Isaac is 40 and a short while later, he realizes his wife is barren and prays to God, BEGS God, EARNESTLY ASKED God for, IMPLORED God for his wife's sake. BEGGED God to allow his wife to become pregnant. And practically in the same breath, we find out she concieved......same verse, at least. Which has always made it seem like God answered Isaac's prayer like.....immediately. THEN, in verse 26, it says that Isaac was "threescore" years old when Rebekah had the boys. That's 60. SIXTY years old.....so.... It was 20 years AFTER he began praying that Rebekah had the twins. TWENTY YEARS. How long do we pray? After my first two children were born, I had several miscarriages, a broken marriage, etc.....lots of time went by, remarried and close to the age of 35, realized I was sort of running out of time and could NOT get pregnant again. So, after about 4 years, we consulted a doc, who told us to try some things, we did and 4 months later became pregnant and the result of that is now sleeping in the next room. But honestly, how long did I pray? How long did I or my husband beg God for this child?? And maybe Isaac only did it that once.....but one thing I've learned about God is that He does things and answers prayers on HIS timetable, not mine. Some things I've prayed earnestly for for a seemingly endless period of time, then gradually stopped praying for.....have been answered!!!! Must be why later on in the Bible we're admonished to "pray without ceasing". This whole prayer thing has always been a conundrum to me. But THIS really woke me up this morning. 20 years. How soon do we rush off to the fertility specialist? Or consult an adoption agency? How many stories have you heard of women who have adopted, only to almost IMMEDIATELY become pregnant themselves, even tho a doc has told them it would "never happen"??? I do not begin to claim or think I understand the mind of God.....but...... 20 years. That's a long time. Denise aka The Domestic Angel |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - HEY Melinda
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