# 229 Oh Get Ready, Evening Shadows Fall

The Book of Genesis

Day 229

  Ge 24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming.  64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel;  65 for she had said to the servant, "Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took a veil and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.  67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

And so the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah is consummated in the tent of Sarah. I've always loved this story, but I have learned to love it even more after hearing the hymn, “Camel Train.”  The song uses this biblical account to paint a beautiful picture of the believers relationship to Jesus as the Bride of Christ. 

’Twas a day in early springtime,
By an ancient wayside well,
Eliezer paused to rest his camel train.
He had found a bride for Isaac
Ere the evening shadows fell,
For his weary journey had not been in vain. 

Oh, get ready! Evening shadows fall.
Don’t you hear the Eliezer call?
There’s going to be a wedding,
And our joy will soon begin,
 In the evening when the camel train comes in.

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So he took the fair Rebekah,
Dressed in jewels rich and rare,
Quickly to her waiting bridegroom far away.
Where Rebekah loved her Isaac,
And he loved Rebekah fair;
Oh, it must have been a happy wedding day.

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Now the blessed Holy Spirit,
From our Father God above,
Has come down to earth to find a worthy Bride.
For our Isaac over yonder
Has prepared His tents of love,
And He wants His fair Rebekah by His side.

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We have left our kinfolk gladly;
We have bade the world goodbye.
We’ve been called to be His pure and spotless Bride;
Where we’ll soon behold our Jesus
In that blest eternity—
What a happy, happy wedding that will be!

“Oh get ready,” church,  evening shadows fall, cover yourself in the humility of Rebekah, and prepare to meet your groom!