A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES: AN ALL IMPORTANT DECISION P/7

 

                                     

A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                AN ALL IMPORTANT DECISION

                                 PART VII

I, Eliezer, Abraham’s servant am so grateful to the Lord for answering my prayer…. For He sent me a young woman to help me water all my camels here at the well outside the town of Nahor…. I then introduced myself… And to my delight I learned that she is the granddaughter of my master’s brother Nahor… Rebekah, for that is her name, then went back home to tell her family about her encounter with me…In the meantime I waited at the well…It did not take too long before Rebekah’s brother, Laban, came to see me….He invited me to spend the night with them…How very kind of Rebekah’s family… I have just settled all the animals….They are now all fed….I know that my men and I are all tired… But there is something I must do first before we can have that well deserved rest.”….. please read the typed out attachment when you learn of Eliezer’s encounter with Rebekah’s brother, Laban, at the well…

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORY                                                   AN ALL IMPORTANT DECISION

                                                                   PART VII

Has the Lord prepared Rebekah’s family to receive Abraham’s servant, who has come to Nahor all the way from Canaan? To find out let’s read Genesis 24:28-32

The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring. As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and he had heard Rebekah tell what the man had said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring. “Come, you, who are blessed by the Lord,” he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.” So the man went to the house and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.

After Laban has heard Rebekah’s story he, first of all, instructed the servants to get everything ready for their guests from Canaan. He then goes to the well outside the town and invites A raham’s servant, Eliezer, to their home. Eliezer is very grateful for the warm welcome he and his men receive at the home of Rebekah’s family.