My sermon topic for today sounds like a question: “How could a love so right go so wrong?” It sounds like a country song, like this one, “I’m miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.” Then there is my favorite, “If the juke box took tear drops, I could dance all night long.” That one makes me cry every time.

How could a love so right go so wrong? The Old Testament story of Isaac and Rebekah starts out so beautifully, but it has a tragic ending. Isaac was a 40-year-old bachelor who implored God to help him find just the right wife. God provided a beautiful young woman of faith named Rebekah. On their first encounter, it was love at first sight. But by the end of the story, Rebekah has become an unprincipled, bitter woman living with a blind and broken husband whom she…