In Genesis 23, Abraham buried his wife, Sarah. Now, in Genesis 24, Abraham prepares for his own death by seeking a wife for his son Isaac. If Isaac does not find a wife, then God’s promises to multiply Abraham through Isaac and Isaac’s offspring will come to nothing. Nevertheless, Abraham does not want Isaac to take a wife among the pagan Canaanites in the land (Gen. 24:3), and he does not want Isaac to leave the land of promise to go back to the land of Abraham’s kindred (Gen. 24:6, 8). In order to find a wife for Isaac, then, Abraham makes plans to send his servant to Abraham’s kindred, who will then bring Isaac’s wife back to Canaan. Should Abraham actually make these plans, though? If God has promised that Isaac will multiply, doesn’t that mean that God already has a plan for bringing Isaac a wife? Is this another story like we saw in Genesis 16, where Abraham unbelievingly took God’s promises for offspring into his own hands by taking his wife’s maidservant Hagar as a second wife? Not at all, for Genesis 24 provides a model for how to believers should seek God’s will in our lives by teaching us that God provides what he promises through plans and prayers.