There’s a lot of running in Genesis 24.
This Hebrew word רוּץ (rootz) means to run. The first two times this word appears in Genesis is when Abraham runs to serve the 3 men who visited him. He runs twice – once to meet them, and once to get a choice calf to cook for them.
In Genesis 24, we have the following:
v17: Eliezer runs to meet Rebekeh
v20: She runs to refill the water jugs
v28: She runs to tell her family
v29: Laben runs to meet Eliezer
Perhaps there’s a lesson here.
We spend a lot of time running FROM things that scare us or worry us. We are trying to outrun the things we fear.
But the people of God are given this example: Run to serve. Run to meet. Run to tell everyone the good news.
Run!