Genesis 24:58 Daily Devotional & Meaning – Rebekah’s Faithful Answer: I Will Go
- Benjamin Michael Mcgreevy
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“And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.”
This verse gives us one of the most powerful responses in the entire chapter. Rebekah is called, the question is placed before her, and she answers with simple courage: “I will go.”
Her family had already recognized that the matter proceeded from the Lord. Abraham’s servant had already testified of God’s guidance. The gifts had already been given. The family had already asked for more time. The servant had urged them not to hinder him because the Lord had prospered his way. Now Rebekah herself is brought forward and asked directly, “Wilt thou go with this man?”
This is the moment where the will of God becomes personal for Rebekah.
Until now, much of the chapter has centered on Abraham, Isaac, the servant, and Rebekah’s family. Abraham sent the servant. The servant prayed. The servant watched. The servant worshipped. The family listened. The family answered. But now Rebekah must speak for herself. Others may recognize what God is doing, but Rebekah must decide whether she will step into it. Her family cannot obey for her. The servant cannot answer for her. Abraham cannot choose for her. Isaac is not even present. The question comes to Rebekah: “Wilt thou go?”
And she says, “I will go.”
There is great faith in those three words. Rebekah is agreeing to leave her home, her family, her country, and the life she has always known. She is agreeing to travel with a servant she has only recently met. She is agreeing to become the wife of Isaac, a man she has not yet seen. She does not have all the details. She does not know everything the future will hold. She does not know the joys and sorrows that will come with this calling. Yet she is willing to go because the Lord has made the way clear.
This is where Rebekah’s story beautifully echoes Abraham’s story. In Genesis 12, God called Abraham to leave his country, his kindred, and his father’s house and go to a land that God would show him. Abraham obeyed and went out by faith. Now, in Genesis 24, Rebekah is called to leave her family and travel to the household of Abraham. She too must leave what is familiar and enter the covenant story by faith. Abraham had to go without seeing the full picture. Rebekah must now do the same.
That is often what faith looks like. Faith does not always receive a full map before it obeys. Sometimes faith only receives the next step. Rebekah does not know Isaac personally yet, but she knows enough to trust the Lord’s leading. She has heard how God guided the servant. She has seen how her family acknowledged that the matter came from the Lord. She has been asked whether she is willing to go. Her answer is not long, complicated, or hesitant. She says, “I will go.”
There is a lesson here for every believer. When God calls us, there comes a point where we must answer. We can listen to sermons. We can receive counsel. We can watch God open doors. We can hear others confirm what the Lord seems to be doing. But eventually, the question becomes personal: will you go? Will you obey? Will you trust God enough to leave what is familiar? Will you follow Him even when you cannot see every detail ahead?
Rebekah’s answer shows the difference between talking about faith and walking by faith. It would have been easy for her to say, “I believe the Lord is in this, but I am not ready.” It would have been easy to say, “I need more time.” It would have been easy to let fear speak louder than faith. But she does not do that. She gives a clear answer: “I will go.”
This does not mean she felt no emotion. It does not mean leaving was easy. It does not mean she had no questions. Faith is not the absence of feeling. Faith is trusting God above our feelings. Rebekah may have felt the weight of leaving her mother, her brother, her home, and the familiar rhythms of life. She may have wondered what Isaac would be like. She may have wondered what her future would hold. But even with all of that, she was willing to go.
That is important because obedience to God often requires courage before comfort arrives. Many people want to feel completely ready before they obey, but God often calls us to obey while we still feel weak, uncertain, or afraid. If we wait until obedience feels easy, we may never move. Rebekah’s answer teaches us that faith sometimes speaks before all fear disappears. Faith says, “I will go,” because God is trustworthy, not because the road is fully understood.
This verse also reminds us that God’s calling often involves leaving. Rebekah had to leave a place. For us, obedience may not always mean leaving a physical location, but it often means leaving something behind. We may have to leave old sins, old habits, old fears, old comforts, old idols, or old ways of thinking. We may have to leave the need to control everything. We may have to leave the approval of others. We may have to leave a season of life that God is bringing to a close. The Christian life is full of moments where the Lord asks, “Wilt thou go?” and faith must answer, “I will go.”
This is also the language of discipleship. Jesus said in Matthew 16:24, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Following Christ requires movement. It requires surrender. It requires leaving behind the throne of self and submitting to the Lordship of Christ. No one can follow Jesus while insisting that everything remain exactly as it was. To follow Him is to go where He leads.
Rebekah’s answer is also beautiful because it is so simple. She does not give a speech. She does not bargain. She does not demand full control over the future. She says, “I will go.” Sometimes the most faithful responses to God are not complicated. Sometimes obedience is simply saying, “Yes, Lord.” Not because we understand everything. Not because we feel strong. Not because the path is easy. But because the Lord has spoken, and His will is better than ours.
There is also something here about urgency. Her family wanted her to stay a few more days, at least ten. That request made sense emotionally. But when Rebekah is asked, she is ready to go. She does not use the emotion of the moment as an excuse to delay obedience. She does not say, “I will go later.” She says, “I will go.” Her response matches the servant’s urgency. The Lord had prospered the way, and Rebekah is willing to move forward in that providence.
This should challenge us. How often do we delay what God has made clear? How often do we say, “I will obey, but not yet”? How often do we treat obedience as something for another day, another season, another version of ourselves? We say we will forgive later. We will surrender later. We will pray later. We will follow the call later. We will take the step later. But delayed obedience can easily become disobedience. Rebekah’s answer reminds us that when God has made the way clear, faith should not be endlessly postponed.
At the same time, this verse also shows that God’s providence does not erase human response. The Lord had arranged the circumstances, but Rebekah still had to answer. God had guided the servant, but Rebekah still had to go. God’s sovereignty and human responsibility meet beautifully in this moment. The Lord leads, and Rebekah responds. The Lord opens the way, and Rebekah walks into it.
This is how it is in the Christian life. Salvation is of the Lord. Grace comes from God. The Father draws. The Spirit convicts. Christ saves. Yet the call still comes to us: repent and believe the gospel. Follow Me. Take up your cross. Come unto Me. The human response does not replace God’s grace; it reveals that God’s grace is working in the heart. Rebekah’s willingness is part of the same providence that brought the servant to the well.
Her words also remind us that God often uses one person’s obedience to carry forward something much greater than that person can see. Rebekah likely did not understand the full significance of her answer. She did not see Jacob and Esau. She did not see the twelve tribes of Israel. She did not see David. She did not see Bethlehem. She did not see Christ coming through the covenant line. She simply knew that the Lord had opened this path, and she was willing to go.
That should encourage us. Our obedience may seem small in the moment, but we do not know what God will do through it. A single yes to God can echo far beyond what we can imagine. A step of faith today may become part of a story much larger than our own lifetime. Rebekah said, “I will go,” and through that obedience, she stepped into the unfolding promise of God.
This verse also speaks to the heart of every believer who is standing at the edge of a new season. Maybe God is calling you to obey in a way that feels uncertain. Maybe He is asking you to leave something familiar. Maybe He is leading you into a place where you cannot see all the details. Maybe the question before you is simple but serious: “Will you go?” Rebekah’s answer gives us a model of faith. Not faith that knows everything, but faith that trusts the One who knows everything.
There is also a picture here of the church’s response to Christ. Rebekah is being called to leave her old home and go to Isaac, the son of promise. In a broader devotional sense, we can see a shadow of the believer’s call to leave the old life and belong to Christ. We are called out of darkness into His marvelous light. We are called away from sin and into fellowship with the Son. We are called to follow even though we have not yet seen Him with our physical eyes. As 1 Peter 1:8 says of Christ, “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
Rebekah had not yet seen Isaac, but she was willing to go to him. Christians have not yet seen Christ face to face, but by faith we follow Him. We trust the testimony of God’s Word. We trust the work of the Spirit. We trust the promise of the Father. And when the gospel call comes, the faithful heart says, “I will go.”
Genesis 24:58 is therefore not merely a verse about a woman agreeing to travel. It is a verse about personal faith, courageous obedience, and surrender to the will of God. Rebekah is asked directly, and she answers directly. She does not hide behind her family. She does not delay behind excuses. She does not demand to see the whole future first. She says, “I will go.”
May that be the posture of our hearts before the Lord. When He calls us to follow, may we not cling to what is familiar. When He leads us forward, may we not be ruled by fear. When He asks us to trust Him, may we not demand every detail before obeying. And when the question comes to us, “Wilt thou go?” may our answer be simple, faithful, and surrendered: “I will go.”
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