Genesis 24:15–27
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We are living in a generation that believes romance is a chaotic, self-generated spark, a mysterious force that strikes like lightning, and that marriage is the flimsy cage we try to put it in after the fact. The modern world treats the quest for a spouse like a consumer transaction, a blend of emotional impulse-buying and pragmatic test-driving. The result is a landscape littered with broken homes, confused children, and exhausted, cynical people who have been taught to follow their hearts right off a cliff. Into this sentimental and destructive fog, the story of Isaac and Rebekah shines with the clean, hard light of covenantal reality. Abraham, the great patriarch, is old, and the central promise of God, the promise of a seed that would bless the nations, hangs on one thing: a suitable wife for his son Isaac.