“And Rebekka inquired of the Lord”
“Call wisdom your kinswoman”
Learning to get an answer from the Lord is a feminine wile, so to speak. Sometimes the pain of your situation forces you to inquire of the Lord. If this is your will, why am I thus? This is unbearable pain without some kind of insight as to why. From before birth these boys were at each other's throats.
Can you just imagine the contorted belly of a woman whose stomach was always in motion. Cant sleep, cant eat, cant figure this thing out.
These boys never did work it out. The parents had to continually occupy them apart from eachother.
This is about how God deals so gently with an expectant mother. This is about how God draws us to him in our taking on the amazing adventure of mothering. This is about how to request real information from the one who made you and your body. In this passage it doesn’t show that she first inquired of her husband and he said, “am I God?” He directed her to inquire of the Lord. She did.
In my personal experience inquiring of the Lord, as an aside.
God always gives you the information that you requested. He has never said to me as I have said and as has been said to me, “look it up!” Never. He is the dictionary. He is the answer. So He doesn’t say that. He also, knows if you really want to know the answer to that question. What is going on with this pregnancy?
God was there long before sonograms. Rebekka was an example of learning to ask God our questions. We do gossip to God about others, all too often: As though he doesn’t know.
Asking God about other people’s stuff is part of our prayer considerations. But, what is going on inside my body and with these two, three, etc Children that have been entrusted to my body and my soul. I think that is a good question to ask the Lord.
God answers very specifically her request for information, but he gives her such thorough information that no woman and no person could have a plan to accomplished.
She sits in God’s office and he tells her that he has chosen her to rear 2 distinct Nations? Who could have accepted that answer without grace? Like Mary, her future daughter in the faith and in progenity. She accepted the task and set her sights on keeping God’s plan as her plan.
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