The Grands Letter (Gen/GLJ)
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D. on March 7, 2025 5:54 am (CST)Dear Grands,
Genesis 24:22-28, “When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father’s house?”
24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
25 Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in.”
26 Then the man bowed low and worshiped the LORD.
27 He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”
28 Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.”
If you’ve ever lost your way, say in a large and strange city, you have experienced something of the “feeling” Abraham’s servant must have felt when he discovered he had been led of the LORD to the right place and, possibly, to the right girl for his master, Isaac. He was pretty sure, however, because he asked if there was sufficient room for him to lodge there while he completed his mission.
Interestingly, too (and there are multiple interesting aspects to this experience), is the fact that this is the first of 435 mentions of some form of the word “truth” in the Scriptures. Further, when we are commissioned and share the truth, we become excited and thankful when we discover that He has faithfully led us in it. Thus, the servant lost no time in bowing before the LORD and giving thanks for His faithful direction and for the discovery of the precise girl for a wife for his master.
When was the last time the LORD answered your earnest and sincere prayer? Did you thank Him? If not, why not thank Him right now? He is infinitely more important than what you sought from His hand!
Heartily in Christ Jesus,
(Dado III)
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America
“We will never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom
