the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Genesis 24:32-49
The LORD has led Abraham’s servant, as if by the hand, into the house of his master’s family. Abraham had made him promise solemnly that he would not take a wife for his son from among the daughters of Canaan (v. 3). Dear young friends, who know Jesus, even if marriage seems to you a far distant event, it is not too early to lay hold firmly on the teaching of the Word on this subject: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for . . . what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?" (2 Corinthians 6:14-15). A child of God can only marry within the family of the faith, that is to say, with another child of God. Those who have not taken account of this injunction, have confessed it later with much sadness: a union with an unconverted person is not only rank disobedience to the Lord’s Word, but also a source of trouble and distress throughout one’s life.
What testimony Abraham’s servant bears to his master to whom he is so proud to belong (vv. 34-36). He is great, he is rich, he has a son, the heir of all that is his. It is thus that the Holy Spirit, when He is received into a heart, makes known the Father and the Son, and it is thus that we, as redeemed of the Lord, should know how to speak of Them.
