Has anyone ever told you a secret?
The Bible talks about a special secret called "The Sacred Secret." It is sacred because it is from God. And it is called a secret because people did not know about it. Even angels wanted to know more about this.
Would you like to know what the secret is?
A long, long time ago, God created the first man and woman. Their names were Adam and Eve. God gave them a beautiful home called the garden of Eden. If Adam and Eve had obeyed God, they and their children could have made the whole earth a paradise like that garden. And they could have lived in Paradise forever. But do you remember what Adam and Eve did?
Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and that is why we do not live in paradise today. But God said that he would make the whole earth beautiful, and everyone would live forever and be happy. How would he do this? For a long time, people did not know. It was a secret.
When Jesus came to earth, he taught people more about this secret. He said that it was about God's Kingdom. Jesus told people to pray for this Kingdom to come. it will make the earth a beautiful paradise.
Are you excited to know this secret?
Remeber that those who obey God will live in Paradise. The Bible tells us many stories of men and women who obeyed God.
Let's see who some of them were and how we can be like them.
Rebekah Wanted to Make Jesus Happy.
Rebekah was a woman who loved Jesus. Her husband's name was Isaac. He also loved Jesus. How did Rebekah meet Isaac? How did she show that she wanted to make Jesus happy?
Isaac's parents were Abraham and Sarah. They lived in the land of Canaan, where the peole did not worship God. But Abraham wanted his son to marry a woman who worshipped God. So he sent his servant, probably Eliezer, to find a wife for Isaac in a place named Haran, where some of Abraham's relative lived.
Eliezer traveled with other servants of Abraham. It was a very long journey they brought with them ten camels carying food and gifts. How would Eliezer know which woman to choose for Isaac? When Eliezer and the other servants arrived at Haran, they stopped at a well because Eliezer knew that people would soon come to get water. He prayed to Jesus and said: `If i ask a young woman to give me water and she gives me and my camels water, I will know that this is the woman you have choosen.
Young Rebekah came to the well. The Bible says that she was very pretty. Eliezer asked her for a drink of water, and she said: `of course. I will give you the water, and i will go get some for your camels too. Just think! thirsty camels drink a lot of water, so Rebekah had to run the well again and again.
Eliezer was amazed at how Jesus answered his prayer. Eliezer gave Rebekah many beautiful gifts. She invited Eliezer and the other servants to her family's house. Eliezer explained why Abraham had sent him there and how Jesus had answered his prayer. Rebekah's family was happy to let her marry Isaac.
But do you think Rebekah wanted to marry Isaac?
Rebekah knew that Jesus had sent Eliezer there. So when Rebekah's family asked her if she wanted to marry Isaac, she said: `Yes, I want to go. Right away,she left with Eliezer, When they arrived in Canaan, she married Isaac. Because Rebekah did what Jesus wanted her to do, Jesus blessed her.
Many years later, Jesus was born in her family!
If you are like Rebekah and make Jesus happy, he will bless you too.
Genesis12:4-5
`So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 24:1
`And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24:58
`And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
Genesis 24:67
`And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's [death].
Thank you for reading and have a bless you all, and be blessed.