Genesis 24:56-58
And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
I love this.
Everything comes down to one question.
Not what Laban wants.
Not what her mother prefers.
Not what would feel easiest.
Not what would keep everything comfortable and familiar.
The question comes straight to Rebekah:
“Wilt thou go with this man?”
And her answer is simple, clean, and beautiful:
“I will go.”
That is faith.
She is saying yes to a man she has never seen, to a land she has never visited, to a future she cannot outline for herself. She has never looked into Isaac’s face. She only knows what she has heard about him, and what she has seen of him through the gifts the servant brought.
And yet that is enough.
That is what makes this so beautiful to me. Rebekah had not seen Isaac, but she liked what she had heard. She saw enough in the servant’s words and in the servant’s gifts to know this was worth leaving for.
That is exactly where we live as believers.
We have not yet seen our Bridegroom.
We have not yet looked into His eyes.
We have not yet stepped fully into the country where He is.
But we have heard of Him.
We have heard of His goodness, His kindness, His beauty, His faithfulness, His mercy. And we have seen enough of Him in the gifts and workings of the Spirit that something in us says, “Yes. He is worth following. He is worth leaving for. I will go.”
That is why First Peter 1:8 means so much:
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
That is Rebekah.
And that is us.
Faith does not say, “I will go once I see everything.”
Faith says, “I have heard enough of Him to trust Him.”
Faith says, “I do not know every mile of the road ahead, but I know enough about the One at the end of it.”
Faith says, “I have not seen Him yet, but my heart is already leaning in His direction.”
I think that is one of the sweetest things about walking with the Lord. He does not show us everything all at once. He just shows us enough of Jesus to win our hearts. And once the heart is won, the old life does not hold the same power it used to hold. The old country starts feeling smaller. The familiar starts losing its pull. Something in you begins to long for the Son.
That is what happened to Rebekah.
And that is what happens when a man or woman really begins to see Christ.
The question becomes personal.
Not, “What does everybody else think?”
Not, “Will this make sense to the people around me?”
Not, “Can I keep one foot in the old life and one foot in the new?”
But simply, “Wilt thou go?”
And the answer of the bride is still the same:
“I will go.”
Beloved, we have not yet seen Him, but we love Him. We have heard enough to trust Him. We have seen enough to know that following Him is worth whatever we leave behind. And one day we will see with our eyes the One we have loved by faith. But until that day, the heart of the bride keeps saying what Rebekah said here:
“I will go.”