I Will Go

 DEVOTION

GENESIS

I WILL GO

Gen 24:54-61

When they got up the next morning, he said, "Send me on my way to my master." 55 But her brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; then you may go." 56 But he said to them, "Do not detain me, now that the LORD has granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master." 57 Then they said, "Let's call the girl and ask her about it." 58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Will you go with this man?" "I will go," she said. 59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham's servant and his men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her," Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the gates of their enemies." 61 Then Rebekah and her maids got ready and mounted their camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

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Once again we see the ugly deceptive Laban that we know from when he becomes a father and his dealings with the son of Isaac, Jacob. After the agreement was made, and the bother and mother had received very wealthy gifts they wanted the servant of Abraham to wait ten days before leaving with Rebekah. Maybe they thought the servant had more gifts and he would offer them greater gifts so to leave at once. We are not told that but, just knowing the deceptive nature of Laban, we can only imagine he and his mother had some ulterior motives. But the servant would have nothing of being detained in doing his master’s will. They agreed to ask the girl, and she was willing to go right now, so she and her maids got ready, mounted their camels, and went back with the servant of Abraham. We take our lesson today from the response of the servant when he told them, “ Do not detain me, now that the LORD has granted success to my journey”. When the Lord shines his light on the path we are to take, and we step out on our journey following Him, we should not allow anything or anyone to detain us because simply following Jesus, keeping in step with the Spirit, doing that which is the will of the Father, we are being successful. Surely the enemy of our soul would try in the most deceptive ways, to detain us from following the light on our path. He could even try to get us to stumble off the path, and get stuck in the mud of his darkness. Of course, we would not purposely step into the darkness ever again, but just a slip off the path is all he is interested in to detain us from accomplishing the will of the Father. “Just wait ten days, then you can be your way” could be one of those deceptions like one of Laban. He could try anything to keep us from being on our way, doing the will of our Master, and having success on our journey. But, we will not be fooled by the schemes of the devil, for God has clothed us in his armor and the Spirit who dwells within has manifested His gift of discernment within us, so we can see plainly the blocks that the enemy of our soul is trying to use to detain us. Maybe it has taken us longer on our journey than it should have. Maybe we are the reason for detaining ourselves by getting distracted, just by the things or ways of this world. It is not that we turned away from the path, but that we simply stopped for a while to enjoy success in the world rather than the journey our Master sent us on. Then again, maybe that distraction was from that old devil, just to slow us down, because although he does not know our path, he cannot read the mind of God, nor ours, but he does know we are trying to follow the light that is shining on our path and our desire is to please the Lord, being successful on the journey he is leading us on. Let us focus our eyes on Jesus, keeping our focus on the path, so that we can be successful for our master. When He asks if we will go with Him, we take our cue from Rebekah, and say, “I will go”.