Day 11: Girls Devo

Day 11 - Genesis 24:39-44

WORD: Drink

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Rebekah

Genesis 24:39-44

I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman does not follow me.’ He said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house; then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my relatives; and if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’ “So I came today to the spring, and said, ‘O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I go successful; behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”; and she will say to me, “You drink, and I will draw for your camels also”; let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’

Additional Reading:

Genesis 24:45-51

“Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’ “She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels also.“I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ “She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ “Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms, and I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son. Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.” Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the Lord; we can say nothing to you one way or the other. Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.”

Observations

So Sarah had Isaac just as God had said she would.  She died and Abraham wanted to make sure Isaac had the proper wife.  He made an oath with his servant to find him a wife for his land.  Oh of this would not be acceptable here in the USA in 2019.  I find it interesting that Rebekah so quickly lowered her jar and offered to water his camels too.  Rebekah was to be part of the line of Jesus.  The promise was give to Abraham and Sarah but also to their generations to follow.  

Ponder this

Are you quick to do what the Lord is asking?  Are you in tune enough to know what the Lord is asking you to do?  Do you trust the Lord to do what he says he will?  Do you have enough patience to wait on the Lord?  

Just for fun

Use a facial mask

Day 5: Girls Devo

Day 5 - Genesis 3:14-19

WORD: Consequences 

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Eve

Genesis 3:14-19

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” 

Additional Reading:

Ephesians 5:22-24

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Observations

Oh the things that happen when we sin. I find in interesting that God gives judgement in the opposite order that they blamed one another. To the woman he increase her pain in childbirth, but also he gives us the ability to forget the pain.  My first child was not your ideal pregnancy.  She was premature and I had her by C-section.  By God's grace and love our lives were both saved.  Three years later I was ready to try for another child and 4 1/2 years after my daughter, my son was born as a V-back baby. He was only 9 days early.  Another consequence of Eve sin was her husband was to rule over her.  There is comfort in submitting to our husbands.  For one it means we have a husband,  if you doubt this ask a single girlfriend or the one that longs to be engaged to their boyfriend.  I am not saying everyone has to be married, I am just saying it is a blessing to be married.  God has a plan for all women single or married we are all loved in his sight.  Also there is comfort in submitting to a husband because they provide us with protection, kind of like an umbrella. Keep a pin in this second one because we will show examples of it in days ahead.  

Ponder this

How would your life change if you submitted to your husband?  Is your church submitting to Christ?  What if your church was submitting to Christ? 

Just for fun

Play a board game, either physical board or electronic.