0181. The Eldest Servant Conducting
The Eldest Servant Conducting
"And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way" (Gen_24:61).
Those were blessed days to Rebekah. To be sure there were hot suns, and the trials of the way; but what cared the beautiful virgin for the discomforts of her journey? Close by her side rode the servant, Eliezer, and he was always cheering her heart with his wonderful accounts of the glories of Abraham and Isaac.
They talked of Isaac by day, and by night Rebekah dreamed of Isaac. Was he not her own, her beloved one? Was she not the destined bride of the greatest of the great?
During the days that intervened between the start and the blessed hour when Rebekah saw Isaac in the distance, and "lighted off her camel," what glories she learned about the one whom she was to wed. Eliezer told her of all of Abraham’s experiences from the day he had left Haran. Of the long delay of Isaac’s birth. The story of Hagar and of Ishmael; the story of Isaac’s being almost sacrificed by his father upon Mount Moriah.
Eliezar told Rebekah of how the angels had visited Abraham and of the wonderful prophecies God had vouchsafed in Isaac. How in Isaac all the world was to be blessed.
Eliezer explained to Rebekah the wonderful privileges of becoming the wife of so marked a son. That she would share with him the joys of his great inheritance and future heritage. Yes, as they journeyed they talked together of Abraham, and they talked of Isaac, and Rebekah forgot the trials by the way. The anticipated glory about to be revealed overweighed, by far, the sufferings by the way.
The analogy is plain, the type is simple, but beautiful. The same One Who came from God to call us, poor lost ones that we were, to accept the Lord Jesus as our all in all; the same One Who gave us promise of our being presented a glorious Bride–the same One has walked beside us in the way. He is called the Comforter, the Paracletos, the One at our side. He is our conductor across the sands; He journeys with us, all the way.
The Holy Spirit talks of Christ. He takes of the things which belong to Him and He shows them unto us. Oh what blessed experiences are ours as He talks to us by the way. How wonderful when He draws up close to our side, and opens up to us some of the things which eye hath not seen, which ear hath not heard, and which have never entered into the heart of man; these are the things He so graciously reveals.
How our hearts have thrilled as this blessed conductor of our march, the Holy Spirit, has shown us things to come. He loves to tell about the day when we shall see the Father and the Son. Of the day of our Lord’s return; of how our Lord will descend with a shout; of our meeting in the air; of the reign with Him; of many of the things which lie ahead. And then He tells us that there are the "exceeding riches" of the Father’s grace toward us in Christ Jesus, which He cannot now reveal, but which will be revealed in the ages to come.
And as the Spirit talks of Him, our hearts beat within us by the way, and we count the weariness and the burdens of our earthly journey as nothing worthy to be compared with the coming joys which await us at the end of the way.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR