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Bekah's story (1)
'"... I will draw water for your camels also ..."' Genesis 24:19
Do you have any idea how much camels drink? One camel can drink about 40 gallons; that's 92 two litre bottles! So ten camels ... well, do the maths. That's a lot of water!
Now imagine you don't have a single tap in your town, just an old-fashioned well. If you popped out to get yourself a drink, and just happened to see some bloke hanging out by the town well with ten camels, what would be the logical thing to do? Probably run, quickly, before he had a chance to collar you to help! But that's not what Rebekah did here.
Read the whole story in Genesis 24 to get the bigger picture. Basically, Abe wanted to find his son Isaac a good wife (that's the way they did it in those days - less romance, more practicality). So he sent his old servant out, and he prayed that God would make it clear who she was.
Bekah came along and was willing not only to stop what she had been doing (getting her own water) so that the servant could have a drink, but also to stay and give all ten of his camels a drink of water. All 1800+ litres of it! That's not a small offer - it would have taken hours.
So why did she offer it? Because she was a kind, generous and godly woman, who saw that serving others was a great thing to do. Come back tomorrow to see what happened next.
written by Bob Gass
'"... I will draw water for your camels also ..."' Genesis 24:19
Do you have any idea how much camels drink? One camel can drink about 40 gallons; that's 92 two litre bottles! So ten camels ... well, do the maths. That's a lot of water!
Now imagine you don't have a single tap in your town, just an old-fashioned well. If you popped out to get yourself a drink, and just happened to see some bloke hanging out by the town well with ten camels, what would be the logical thing to do? Probably run, quickly, before he had a chance to collar you to help! But that's not what Rebekah did here.
Read the whole story in Genesis 24 to get the bigger picture. Basically, Abe wanted to find his son Isaac a good wife (that's the way they did it in those days - less romance, more practicality). So he sent his old servant out, and he prayed that God would make it clear who she was.
Bekah came along and was willing not only to stop what she had been doing (getting her own water) so that the servant could have a drink, but also to stay and give all ten of his camels a drink of water. All 1800+ litres of it! That's not a small offer - it would have taken hours.
So why did she offer it? Because she was a kind, generous and godly woman, who saw that serving others was a great thing to do. Come back tomorrow to see what happened next.
written by Bob Gass
