A beautiful woman, a man, a servant and a long journey are ingredients for a love story.  Rebekah and Isaac’s love story is beautiful because it is God who brought them together for a Godly marriage.  Their marriage was significant for it had far reaching results… God’s purposes and plan included them in the lineage of Messiah.

Rebekah traveled from her home in Mesopotamia to Canaan.  A ten camel caravan, some servants and many miles over many days finally came to an end in the Negev, in the south of Canaan.
(Genesis 24:61)

The long shadows of evening were on the fields when Rebekah first saw her future husband.  She asked the servant who the man was; he told her it was his master, Isaac.  She dismounted from the camel she rode and covered herself with her veil.
(Genesis 24:62-65)

The servant recounted to Isaac about his prayers to the living Lord.  He told how God led him to the right family immediately after reaching Haran.  He described Rebekah going to the well and her quick hospitality of watering the ten camels. Then he explained how she invited him and his retinue home providing them food and a place to spend the night.  He told Isaac all that was said and her response of “I will go.”  (Genesis 24: 15-61, 66)

How did Isaac respond?
(NASB) Genesis 24:67 “Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.”

Rebekah and Isaac were committed to each other, to God and to their marriage.  God brought this man and this woman together.  Their marriage is an example of a Godly marriage.

Isaac loved his wife and Rebekah respected her husband.  A Godly marriage satisfies the needs of both the husband and the wife.

(NASB) Ephesians 5:33 “Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.”

~ Take it to heart ~

Ingredients for a healthy, Godly marriage:

Commitment to God and to each other.

Faithfulness to God and to each other.

Love and respect for God and for each other.