My last post introduced us to the servant that was sent by Abraham to find Isaac a wife, as told in Genesis 24. This is where I want to pick up.

The servant had taken ten camels with him to carry supplies and gifts to the woman he was looking for. He had decided he would stop at a well and find a wife for Isaac there by asking a woman to water his camels and the woman who said “yes” without hesitation would be Isaac’s wife. Each of those camels drinks twenty gallons of water, and he had ten camels. The woman would have a clay vase that would hold approximately 5 gallons of water at a time. This would mean the woman would have to make forty trips which would take around two hours just to water the camels! It seemed like a simple plan, to just go to a well and pick up a woman to take back for Isaac’s wife, but the servant was using wisdom in making this monumental decision. The servant was looking for a woman who would go beyond the simple task of raising her vase to his lips to have a drink of water…he was looking for a woman who would go above and beyond a simple act of kindness. She went both the first mile and the second mile!

The first mile is what is in the now, but going the second mile is what will affect our future. Don’t you see this for Rebekkah, the woman who came to this well? She went the first mile which caught the servant’s attention, but she went the second mile that changed her entire legacy. So, why are we always afraid to go the second mile? The challenge from this post is for us to not be afraid to go the second mile. Some of us have trouble just going the first mile for the now, and we will cover that next time. But for now, let’s go the first mile for NOW and then go the second mile for LATER.