A Comfort for Isaac

“And Isaac brought her (Rebekah) 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.” Genesis 24:67

When Isaac married Rebekah, she became a comfort for him. She helped heal the wound of his mother's death. He was glad he had married her. Unfortunately the story changes further on, but at this stage she was a comfort to him.

Now, if you're a teenage girl you're not likely married yet. But you no doubt have family in your life. Parents, grandparents, sisters or brothers. What are you to them? Are you a blessing? A comfort?

Do they rejoice when they look at your life? Are you a help to them? An encouragement?

Or are you a grief to them? Are you the heaviness of your parents heart? Do you make them cry or smile?

(The answers may, of course, depend on whether they are Christian or not. If you have nonChristian family, living for God may be a grief to them. In that case you still need to live for God.)

Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son (daughter) is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.  

Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son (daughter) maketh a glad father: but a foolish son (daughter) is the heaviness of his mother.

If you want to be a good wife one day you need to start by being a good daughter and sister.