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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We know the LORD's hand was in all that was done for Abraham's servant, for he was serving his master and went to the exact place at the exact time so that he would find Rebekah. We are not sure why Laban and her mother wanted her to stay at home for 10 days. However, the servant asked them not to detain him. The question was then asked of Rebekah, and her answer gives us our clue for life: "I will go." But we should also consider another truth. Laban and her mother's blessing was for her to prosper as a wife, a mother of descendants of thousands upon thousands, and that her offspring would possess the gates of their enemies. This prophecy foretold what would happen: through Rebekah and Isaac, Jacob would become the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. But it is this, "I will go," that strikes a chord in our hearts. Although God has a plan and purpose for our lives, and he may bring certain circumstances into our lives to motivate us toward his plan, or he may even bring us a direct message either through his word, a messenger, a vision, or by his very own spoken word into our ears or heart, we still need to say, "I will go." Jesus wants us to follow him, just as he said to James and John. We do not know whether, because we do not know the inflection of Jesus's voice, he told them to follow him in a commanding tone, or if it was more like a gentle nudge on their hearts. When the Holy Spirit came into our lives to convict us of our need to repent, he did not command us, but gave a gentle nudge on our hearts. Could that be how God moves us in accordance with his plan and purpose for us? Could He just gently nudge our hearts toward where and what we are to do? However, when the Lord speaks to us, we still need to respond, "I will go."