I do love a good love story. Through a set of unusual circumstances, two strangers find their way into each others arms and live happily ever after. Isaac's and Rebekah's story is just this sort of tale but we know it is by no coincidence that this couple comes together. God, himself had a hand in it. My personal love story is much the same. My husband and I were in the right place, at the right time, with the right attitude under the right circumstances to meet. Love at first sight occurred much as it did for Isaac. For Rebekah, I think perhaps it was love 'prior' to first sight and the reason--her heart was willing to take the risk to go to a place she had never been to be with a person she did not know to live a life she could not imagine. She didn't even hesitate or prepare. She was ready and willing embrace her life of a "hope and a future" talked about Jeremiah 29:11.
Rebekah's confidence probably comes from the fact that she had been in training for this very moment. Her life experience had prepared her for the things she would face. Her "arms were [certainly] strong for the task' [Proverbs 31:17] as seen when watering twelve thirsty camels but I like to think her heart and soul were also ready to be a comfort to Isaac and the mother of a nation.
Each of us have a similar set of skills unique to the tasks God will ask us to do. Maybe you have heard that "God does not call the equipped, he equips the called". I think the truth is he has been equipping each us from the beginning of our lives. The experiences of our ordinary lives along with the heartbreaks and joys he has carried us through have given us the knowledge needed to reach out to those around us in wisdom. We already have what it takes to do the things he calls us to do and when it comes time to act we can be confident we can do the job loving the world. And if your knees feel a little wobbly at the thought of stepping out in faith, know that the Lord has seen the outcome and he still called you to a show off a life of hope found in Him.
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
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