HOW TO MEET HER: Don’t fail at that next proposer
(By G.Y Lekia) Genesis 24 Abraham had entrusted the task or responsibility of getting a wife for his son to his eldest servant. Not to say much of what that means, the eldest servant we believer had enough of discernment, and training under the patriarch to function in the capacity he had been charged. The old Abraham had to charge his servant by oath, God being the witness. This was a griever matter than the covenant Abraham had made with Abimelech where he brought seven eve lambs (Genesis 21: 28). Here the servant was ask to place his hands under the thigh of Abraham – a man God had made great, whom the children of Heth called lord (Genesis 23:6). The servant was to feel the weight of the thigh of the man who is the father of them who believe by faith, a man who had sojourn on many lands,a friend of God (Isaiah 51:2; Genesis 23:4). At the point of taking hold of Abraham’s thigh he knew the weight of his master’s heart on the matter. Abraham was now close to his gr