Sing Servant

Eliezer
by Eleanor van der Merwe

He said to the chief servant in his household, "I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac". Genesis 24:2,3,4

An incredible miracle: Out of a gray old man and his post-menopausal wife a nation is born, millions, like the stars and the sand. But somebody has to go to Mesopotamia. The oldest servant is chosen. God never kicks out the old bull. Is he Eliezer?

The sun bakes down. A caravan plods on through the desert. Dust. Heat. The saddle becomes very hard. And these flies! Is this what being God's matchmaker is all about? Then he sees it: a well, and Rebecca with a jar on her shoulder. She says the right words, does the right thing. A girl, who can water ten camels at once, will be a good wife also.

He cannot but worship there on the sand, the sand that nobody can count.

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Lagai-Roi
by Eleanor van der Merwe

And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.   Genesis 16:8

There are always two sides to a coin. The servant becomes nasty and the mistress impossible. Hagar's pride leads to her fall. She sits in the desert, alone, pregnant. Despair. But next to her bubbles a fountain…

God himself appears to her. And sends her back to Sarai. It is difficult, yet she goes. She will never be the same again. She has seen God.

She calls the well Lagai-Roi, to the living One who sees me. Many a weary traveler will still quench his thirst at this fountain.

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