“Before I had finished speaking in my heart…” Genesis 24:45a
Here, we see Abraham’s servant being commissioned with finding a wife for his son Isaac. He would not allow him to take a wife from the women of Canaan and sent him back to search among his relatives. So, in obedience to his master’s wish, he journeyed back to their homeland to look among his master’s people. This takes him to the well outside their city where he contemplates the task at hand. Then, in a Prayer of humble desperation, he pleads with the “God of His master Abraham”, to help him. In Today’s Verse, we see that answer begin to unfold. Notice two things in this passage.
First, we’re told that Eleazar prayed silently to God; he was “speaking in my heart”. The Mighty God, the One who created you, and knows you, certainly hears you when you speak verbally, but he also hears “your thoughts”! Second, because there is nothing hidden from Him and He knows “all things from the beginning”, He can answer prayer even before that prayer is uttered. And, because “All Things” are under His command and control, and as we read yesterday, “nothing is too difficult for the Lord”, He is able, as Paul tells us, “to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think”!
What an Amazing God we serve. May we be encouraged to pray bolder by Eleazar’s example!