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Prepare: Think about times when you’ve experienced a sense of success (Psalm 17:14). Reflect on how God played a part in it and give thanks now. Just right! It’s all good at this point in the story. Abraham’s servant, amazingly, gets to Haran (now in Turkey) from Hebron (now in Israel) and discovers Rebekah, who not only shows generosity and kindness but is also from just the right family. She is the knot that ties these two parts of the family together. It’s the stuff of soap operas – yet just what Abraham believed could happen (v 40). God’s hand What is the secret of the servant’s success? He listens to God and gives him credit for keeping him on ‘the right road, the road of truth’ (see 24:48) as it says in Mary Phil Korsak’s At the Start... Genesis Made New (Doubleday, 1993). Notice how many times the servant is shown praying to the Lord or acknowledging his guidance. His excitement is contagious for Laban and Bethuel, too, to recognise God’s hand in events. Role model Do you have a sense of how God has blessed your work or your family life? When Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem in the last week of his life, his ordinary disciples and the children in the crowd were more ready to praise him than the people who thought themselves important. We might be important, in some senses, but we are servants, too. Abraham’s servant is a role model whose attitude speaks across the centuries. Respond: Think through what success will mean for you in the next 24 hours. Ask God to be with you and grant you success (Psalm 118:25). http://www.wordlive.org/Session/Classic/2012-05-08