Shall I Indeed Bear a Child?

Creation: A Divine Cycle
The Savior Has Been born

God Promises a Savior

Genesis 18:9-15 The Message

⁹ The men said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?”
He said, “In the tent.”
¹⁰ One of them said, “I’m coming back about this time next year. When I arrive, your wife Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was listening at the tent opening, just behind the man.
^11-12 Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old. Sarah was far past the age for having babies. Sarah laughed within herself, “An old woman like me? Get pregnant? With this old man of a husband?”
^13-14 God said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh saying, ‘Me? Have a baby? An old woman like me?’ Is anything too hard for God? I’ll be back about this time next year and Sarah will have a baby.”
¹⁵ Sarah lied. She said, “I didn’t laugh,” because she was afraid.
But he said, “Yes you did; you laughed.”

For Reflection

Out of site, but not out of earshot, Sarah heard of this impossible prediction.  Among the stories told within the household of Abraham, surely one or more was an illustration of God's unlimited power.  Yet Sarah laughed at the ridiculous notion that she could bear a child. Sarah and Abraham are completely human in their responses to God.  A kernel of doubt is always with us.  We often act as though God can not or will not visit us with miraculous blessings.  We too, laugh at the thought of what we consider impossible.  Then, like Sarah, we deny our doubt when confronted by the truth and lie about it to hide our embarrassment and denial of God's power.

Pray

for supreme confidence in God's power to do God's will through you.  Pray for the courage to fight through the whispers of denial that rise within you and trust in God with unreasonable faith.