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Bible love story --Isaac and Rebekah, Part B--
When Isaac first met Rebekah, he took her to his mother and then he married her. It is written that “she became his wife and he loved her”. Have you ever wonder why the sequence is not as the following: he loved her and she becomes his wife? I’m tempted to assume that he was first committed/ choose to love her, then love grow through the time; likewise, Rebekah did the same.
The focus of their love is not on the surge of emotion. As we run through the Old Testament, we will notice that most of the heroes always involved in the act of polygamy; from Abraham to David, Solomon, etc. This was a common practice in the culture of the time. However, Isaac has only one wife, Rebekah, in his entire life. As a successful and wealthy man, he never looked for another woman; Due to this he was not in sync with the culture of time. He choose to love her by giving himself (deny himself) and showing a loving kindness only to her. This kind of commitment is something that will make a lasting love and stand through the life shifting sand.
Some might try to argue that Isaac fell in love on her in the first sight. Although bible never mentions about this specifically, this argument might be valid. Falling in love to someone is normal and natural thing that happen to us (I did outline in earlier episode) but I must contest that this is not only the case. Because what we are trying to see in them is a committed love and relationship that lasted through out their lifetime; and not because of they consume their passion toward each other obsessively. Isaac and Rebekah never knew each other before. They work out their marriage simply from the scratch; they learned how to love each other.
If you will to love some body you can
(Zachariah, R. 2004, p.31).
If this is true in the case of Isaac and Rebekah, then it must also be possible for us who did have a chance to know our peer for a period of time. Love is a hard work and it will never be easy because a long lasting love required a decision and commitment. Never try base our love solely on our emotion but also our commonsense.
I must say that love is not for a kid;
when you try to emotionally toy with it;
it will crush your emotion down to the pit.
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